Came home the Crookham way, by the Thorn, and the little muddy pond"
(Dorothy Wordsworth's
Alfoxden
Journal).
Wordsworth - 1
]
[Variant 28:
1845.
... is buried ... 1798.]
* * * * *
FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A:
"March 19, 1798. William and Basil and I walked to the hill tops. A
very cold bleak day. William wrote some lines describing a stunted
Thorn" (Dorothy Wordsworth's Alfoxden Journal).--Ed.
"April 20. Walked in the evening up the hill dividing the coombes.
Came home the Crookham way, by the Thorn, and the little muddy pond"
(Dorothy Wordsworth's
Alfoxden
Journal).
--Ed.]
* * * * *
SUB-FOOTNOTE ON THE VARIANT
[Sub-Footnote i: Compare in Burger's 'Pfarrer's Tochter', "drei Spannen
lang," and see Appendix V.--Ed.]
* * * * *
GOODY BLAKE AND HARRY GILL
A TRUE STORY
Composed 1798.--Published 1798.
[Written at Alfoxden. The incident from Dr. Darwin's 'Zoonomia'.--I.
F.]
See Erasmus Darwin's 'Zoonomia', vol. iv. pp. 68-69, ed. 1801.
