[181:1] Some months after I had written this line, it gave me pleasure to find [to observe _An. Anth._, _S. L. 1828_] that Bartram had observed the same circumstance of the Savanna Crane. 'When these Birds move their wings in flight, their strokes are slow, moderate and regular; and even when at a considerable distance or high above us, we plainly hear the quill-feathers: their shafts and webs upon one another creek as the joints or working of a vessel in a tempestuous sea.' LINENOTES: Title] This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison. A Poem Addressed, &c. An. Anth.: the words 'Addressed to', &c., are omitted in Sibylline Leaves, 1828, 1829, and 1834. [1-28] Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, Lam'd by the scathe of fire, lonely and faint, This lime-tree bower my prison! They, meantime, My Friends, whom I may never meet again, On springy heath, along the hill-top edge 5 Wander delighted, and look down, perchance, On that same rifted dell, where many an ash Twists its wild limbs beside the ferny rock Whose plumy[178:A] ferns forever nod and drip Spray'd by the waterfall. But chiefly thou 10 My gentle-hearted _Charles_! thou who had pin'd MS. Letter to Southey, July 17, 1797. [178:A] The ferns that grow in moist places grow five or six together, and form a complete 'Prince of Wales's Feather'--that is plumy. _Letter to Southey._ [1-28] Well they are gone, and here I must remain This lime-tree, . . . hill-top edge Delighted wander, and look down, perchance, On that same rifted dell, where the wet ash Twists its wild limbs above, . . . who hast pin'd MS. Letter to Lloyd [July, 1797]. [3] Such beauties and such feelings, as had been An. Anth., S. L. [4] my remembrance] to have remembered An. Anth. [6] My Friends, whom I may never meet again An. Anth., S. L. [20] blue] dim An. Anth. [22] tract] track An. Anth., S. L. 1828. [24] bark, perhaps, which lightly touches An. Anth. [28] hast] had'st An. Anth. [31] patient] bowed MS. Letter to Southey. [34] beams] heaven MS. Letter to Southey. [38 foll.] Struck with joy's deepest calm, and gazing round On the wide view[180:A] may gaze till all doth seem Less gross than bodily; a living thing That acts upon the mind, and with such hues As clothe th' Almighty Spirit, when he makes. MS. Letter to Southey. [180:A] You remember I am a _Berkleyan_. _Note to Letter._ [40] wide] wild S. L. [40] (for _wild_ r. _wide_; and the two following lines thus: Less gross than bodily; and of such hues As veil the Almighty Spirit _Errata_, S. L., p. [xii].) As veil the Almighty Spirit, when he makes 1828. [41 foll.] Less gross than bodily, a living thing Which acts upon the mind and with such hues As cloathe the Almighty Spirit, when he makes An. Anth., S. L. [45 foll.]