No More Learning

above yon . . . 1836. ]


[Sub-Variant 4:

By the deep gloom appalled, the Vagrant sighs, 1836. ]


[Sub-Variant 5: This couplet was cancelled in the edition of 1827. ]


[Sub-Variant 6:

Or on her fingers . . . 1836. ]


[Sub-Variant 7: This couplet was withdrawn in 1827. ]


[Sub-Variant 8:

Behind the hill . . . 1836.
]


[Sub-Variant 9:

Near and yet nearer, from the piny gulf
Howls, by the darkness vexed, the famished wolf, 1836. ]


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FOOTNOTES


[Footnote A: See note to the "Juvenile Pieces" in the edition of 1836
(p. 1). --Ed. ]


[Footnote B: There is something characteristic in Wordsworth's
addressing an intimate travelling companion in this way. S. T. C. , or
Charles Lamb, would have written, as we do, "My dear Jones"; but
Wordsworth addressed his friend as "Dear Sir," and described his sister
as "a Young Lady," and as a "Female Friend. "--Ed. ]


[Footnote C: In a small pocket copy of the 'Orlando Furioso' of
Ariosto--now in the possession of the poet's grandson, Mr. Gordon
Wordsworth--of which the title-page is torn away, the following is
written on the first page, "My companion in the Alps with Jones. W.
Wordsworth:" also "W. W. to D.