[Footnote B: It may not be
irrelevant
to mention that our late poet,
Robert Browning, besought me--both in conversation, and by letter--to
restore this "discarded" picture, in editing 'Dion'.
Wordsworth - 1
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.]
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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: See note to the "Juvenile Pieces" in the edition of 1836
(p. 1).--Ed.
]
[Footnote B: It may not be
irrelevant
to mention that our late poet,
Robert Browning, besought me--both in conversation, and by letter--to
restore this "discarded" picture, in editing 'Dion'.
--Ed.]
[Footnote C: These lines are only applicable to the middle part of that
lake.--W. W. 1793.]
[Footnote D: In the beginning of winter, these mountains, in the
moonlight nights, are covered with immense quantities of woodcocks;
which, in the dark nights, retire into the woods.--W. W. 1793.]
[Footnote E: The word 'intake' is local, and signifies a
mountain-inclosure.--W. W. 1793.]
[Footnote F: Gill is also, I believe, a term confined to this country.
Glen, gill, and dingle, have the same meaning.
