Thus, when the Sun, prepared for rest,
Hath gained the precincts of the West,
Though his
departing
radiance fail
To illuminate the hollow Vale, 1815.
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[Footnote A: See the 'Memoirs of William Wordsworth', by Christopher
Wordsworth (1851), vol. i. pp. 10-31.--ED]
[Footnote B: Compare the 'Ode, composed in January 1816', stanza
v.--Ed.]
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[Variant 1:
1832.
....shall 1815.]
[Variant 2:
1815.
That, when the close of life draws near,
And I must quit this earthly sphere,
If in that hour a tender tie MS.]
[Variant 3:
1845.
Thus, when the Sun, prepared for rest,
Hath gained the precincts of the West,
Though his
departing
radiance fail
To illuminate the hollow Vale, 1815.
Thus, from the precincts of the West,
The Sun, when sinking down to rest, 1832.
... while sinking ... 1836.
Hath reached the precincts ... MS.]
[Variant 4:
1815.
A lingering lustre fondly throws 1832.
The edition of 1845 reverts to the reading of 1815.
