if his eyes, which now
Have been so long familiar with the earth,
No more behold the
horizontal
sun 1800.
William Wordsworth
.. 1800.]
[Variant 19:
1827.
... led ... 1800.]
[Variant 20:
1837.
...
if his eyes, which now
Have been so long familiar with the earth,
No more behold the
horizontal
sun 1800.
... if his eyes have now
Been doomed so long to settle on the earth
That not without some effort they behold
The countenance of the horizontal sun, 1815.]
[Variant 21:
1837.
... or by the ... 1800.]
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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: In an early MS. the title of this poem is 'Description of a
Beggar', and in the editions 1800 to 1820 the title was 'The Old
Cumberland Beggar, a Description'.--Ed.
