No More Learning

And though you with your utmost skill
From labour could not wean them,
Alas! 'tis very little, all
Which they can do between them.

Beside their moss-grown hut of clay,
Not twenty paces from the door,
A scrap of land they have, but they
Are poorest of the poor.
This scrap of land he from the heath
Enclosed when he was stronger;
But what avails the land to them,
Which they can till no longer?



Editions Editions Edition Edition Editions
1798 and 1800. 1802-1815. 1820. 1827. 1832-1849.

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2 b 2 b 2 b

2 2 3 4 a 3 a
3 b 5 b

3 3 4 a 3 a 6
5 b 5 b

4 6 6 6 4 a
3 b

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APPENDIX VII

'Lines written in Early Spring', ll. 11, 12

Compare the 'Laws of Manu', i. 49:

"Vegetables, as well as animals, have internal consciousness, and are
sensible of pleasure and pain. "

This I have received from a correspondent, but I have never seen the
English version. --Ed.





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APPENDIX VIII

'An Evening Walk'


(1) l.
219,

"His neck, a varying arch, between his towering wings. "

Compare 'Paradise Lost', book vii. l. 438.


(2) l. 286, in the footnote reading of 1793, the line occurs

"Or clock, that blind against the wanderer borne. "

This refers to the winged beetle, the buzzard-clock.


(3) l. 323, "The bird, etc. " The owl. Compare Cowper's 'Task', i. ll.
205, 206.


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