"While thou art mine, my little Love, 85 This cannot be a sorrowful grove; Contentment, hope, and mother's glee, [13] I seem to find them all in thee: [14] Here's grass to play with, here are flowers; I'll call thee by my darling's name; 90 Thou hast, I think, a look of ours, Thy features seem to me the same; His little sister thou shalt be; And, when once more my home I see, I'll tell him many tales of Thee." 95 * * * * * VARIANTS ON THE TEXT [Variant 1: 1807. This Mother ... MS.] [Variant 2: 1845. ... English ... 1807.] [Variant 3: 1827. ... did ... 1807.] [Variant 4: 1845. Once did I see her clasp the Child about, And take it to herself; and I, next day, Wish'd in my native tongue to fashion out Such things as she unto this Child might say: 1807. Once did I see her take with fond embrace This Infant to herself; and I, next day, Endeavoured in my native tongue to trace Such things as she unto the Child might say: 1820. Once, having seen her take with fond embrace This Infant to herself, I framed a lay, Endeavouring, in my native tongue, to trace 1827.] [Variant 5: 1845. And thus, from what I knew, had heard, and guess'd, 1807.] [Variant 6: 1820. 'Tis gone--forgotten--let me do My best--there was a smile or two, 1807.] [Variant 7: 1827. ... sweet ... 1807.] [Variant 8: 1836. For they confound me: as it is, I have forgot those smiles of his. 1807. For they bewilder me--even now _His_ smiles are lost,--I know not how! 1820. By those bewildering glances crost In which the light of his is lost. [a] 1827.] [Variant 9: 1827. From France across the Ocean came; 1807.] [Variant 10: 1845. My Darling, she is not to me What thou art! though I love her well: 1807. But to my heart she cannot be 1836.] [Variant 11: 1807. And I grow happy while I speak, Kiss, kiss me, Baby, thou art good. MS.] [Variant 12: 1820. ... that quiet face, 1807.] [Variant 13: 1807. A Joy, a Comforter thou art; Sunshine and pleasure to my heart; And love and hope and mother's glee, MS.] [Variant 14: 1807. My yearnings are allayed by thee, My heaviness is turned to glee. MS.] * * * * * SUB-FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT [Sub-Footnote a: In a letter to Barron Field (24th Oct. 1828), Wordsworth says that his substitution of the text of 1827 for that of 1807, was due to the objections of Coleridge.--Ed.] * * * * * TO THE CUCKOO Composed 1802.--Published 1807 [Composed in the Orchard at Town-end, 1804.--I.F.] One of the "Poems of the Imagination."--Ed.