With
mournful
joy, to think .
William Wordsworth
.
1798.
]
[Variant 8: This line was added by S. T. C. in the edition of 1800. ]
[Variant 9:
1827.
. . . and man himself, . . . 1798. ]
[Variant 10:
1836.
With mournful joy, to think . . . 1798. ]
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FOOTNOTES TO THE TEXT
[Footnote A: Yet commanding, 1798-1805. ]
[Footnote B: The Ferry on Windermere. --Ed. ]
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SUB-FOOTNOTES TO THE VARIANTS
[Sub-Footnote i: The final retention of the reading of 1798 was probably
due to a remark of Charles Lamb's, in 1815, in which he objected to the
loss of the "admirable line" in the first edition, "a line quite alive,"
he called it. Future generations may doubt whether the reading of 1798,
or that of 1815, is the better. --Ed. ]
[Sub-Footnote ii: An emendation by S. T. C. --Ed. ]
* * * * *
THE BORDERERS
A TRAGEDY
Composed 1795-6. --Published 1842
Readers already acquainted with my Poems will recognise, in the
following composition, some eight or ten lines, [A] which I have not
scrupled to retain in the places where they originally stood.
[Variant 8: This line was added by S. T. C. in the edition of 1800. ]
[Variant 9:
1827.
. . . and man himself, . . . 1798. ]
[Variant 10:
1836.
With mournful joy, to think . . . 1798. ]
* * * * *
FOOTNOTES TO THE TEXT
[Footnote A: Yet commanding, 1798-1805. ]
[Footnote B: The Ferry on Windermere. --Ed. ]
* * * * *
SUB-FOOTNOTES TO THE VARIANTS
[Sub-Footnote i: The final retention of the reading of 1798 was probably
due to a remark of Charles Lamb's, in 1815, in which he objected to the
loss of the "admirable line" in the first edition, "a line quite alive,"
he called it. Future generations may doubt whether the reading of 1798,
or that of 1815, is the better. --Ed. ]
[Sub-Footnote ii: An emendation by S. T. C. --Ed. ]
* * * * *
THE BORDERERS
A TRAGEDY
Composed 1795-6. --Published 1842
Readers already acquainted with my Poems will recognise, in the
following composition, some eight or ten lines, [A] which I have not
scrupled to retain in the places where they originally stood.
