The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth Volume I Part 17

[Variant 100:

1836.

The scene is waken'd, yet its peace unbroke, By silver'd wreaths of quiet charcoal smoke, That, o'er the ruins of the fallen wood, Steal down the hills, and spread along the flood. 1793.]

[Variant 101:

1836.

All air is, as the sleeping water, still, List'ning th' aereal music of the hill, 1793.

Air listens, as the sleeping water still, To catch the spiritual music of the hill, 1832.]

[Variant 102:

1836.

Soon follow'd by his hollow-parting oar, And echo'd hoof approaching the far sh.o.r.e; 1793.]

[Variant 103:

1836.

... the feeding ... 1793.]

[Variant 104:

1836.

The tremulous sob of the complaining owl; 1793.]

FOOTNOTES ON VARIANTS (Sub-Footnotes)

[Sub-Footnote i: These rude structures, to protect the flocks, are frequent in this country: the traveller may recollect one in Withburne, another upon Whinlatter.--W. W. 1793.]

[Sub-Footnote ii: Not far from Broughton is a Druid monument, of which I do not recollect that any tour descriptive of this country makes mention. Perhaps this poem may fall into the hands of some curious traveller, who may thank me for informing him, that up the Duddon, the river which forms the aestuary at Broughton, may be found some of the most romantic scenery of these mountains.--W. W. 1793.

This circle is at the top of Swinside, a glen about four miles from Broughton. It consists of 50 stones, 90 yards in circ.u.mference; and is on the fell, which is part of the range terminating in Black Combe.--Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote iii: The lily of the valley is found in great abundance in the smaller islands of Winandermere.--W. W. 1793.]

[Sub-Footnote iv: In the 1793 edition this line reads "Asleep on Minden's charnel plain afar." The 'errata', list inserted in some copies of that edition gives "Bunker's charnel hill."--Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote v: Sugh, a Scotch word, expressive, as Mr. Gilpin explains it, of the sound of the motion of a stick through the air, or of the wind pa.s.sing through the trees. See Burns' 'Cottar's Sat.u.r.day Night'.--W. W. 1793.

The line is in stanza ii., l. 1:

November chill blaws loud, wi' angry sugh.--Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote vi: This long pa.s.sage occupies, in the edition of 1793, the place of lines 297-314 in the final text given above.--Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote vii:

"So break those glittering shadows, human joys"

(YOUNG).--W. W. 1793.

The line occurs 'Night V, The Complaint', l. 1042, or l. 27 from the end.--Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote viii:

"Charming the night-calm with her powerful song."

A line of one of our older poets.--W. W. 1793.

This line I have been unable to discover, but see Webster and Dekker in 'Westward Hoe', iv. c.

"Charms with her excellent voice an awful silence through all this building."

Ed.]

FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT

[Footnote A: See note to the "Juvenile Pieces" in the edition of 1836 (p. 1).--Ed.]