No More Learning

[D]


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VARIANTS ON THE TEXT

[Variant 1:

1842.

. . . out of . . . MS. ]


[Variant 2:

But wherefore tremble? 'tis no place
Of pain and sorrow, but of grace,
Of shelter, and of silent peace,
And "friendly aid";
Grasped is he now in that embrace
For which he prayed. [a] MS. ]


[Variant 3:

1845.

Well might I mourn that He was gone
Whose light I hailed when first it shone,
When, breaking forth as nature's own,
It showed my youth 1842. ]


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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT

[Footnote A: It is dated thus by Wordsworth himself on three occasions,
and the year of its composition is also indicated in the title of the
poem. --Ed.
]


[Footnote B: Compare Burns's poem 'To a Mountain Daisy', l. 15. --Ed. ]


[Footnote C: See Burns's 'A Bard's Epitaph', l. 19. --Ed. ]


[Footnote D: Compare 'The Tomb of Burns', by William Watson, 1895. --Ed. ]


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SUB-FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT

[Sub-Footnote a: See in his poem the 'Ode to Ruin'. --Ed. ]



The following is an extract from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal of the
Tour in Scotland:

"Thursday, August 18th. --Went to the churchyard where Burns is
buried. A bookseller accompanied us. He showed us the outside of
Burns's house, where he had lived the last three years of his life,
and where he died. It has a mean appearance, and is in a bye
situation, whitewashed. .