Where proud Covent-Garden, in frost and in snow, Spreads her fruits and her flow'rs, built up row after row; Old Adam will point with his finger and say, To them that stand by, "I've seen better than they." 1800. ... her fruit ... 1815. (The text of 1815 is otherwise identical with that of 1837.)] [Variant 29: Where the apples are heap'd on the barrows in piles, You see him stop short, he looks long, and he smiles; He looks, and he smiles, and a Poet might spy The image of fifty green fields in his eye. Only in the text of 1800.] [Variant 30: 1837. ... in the waggons, and smells to the hay; 1800. ... in the Waggon, and smells at ... 1815.] [Variant 31: 1815. ... has mown, And sometimes he dreams that the hay is his own. 1800.] [Variant 32: 1815. ... where'er ... 1800.] [Variant 33: 1850. ... spring up o'er ... 1800. ... over ... 1815.] * * * * * FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: i. e. first published in the 1815 edition of the Poems: but, although dated by Wordsworth 1803, it had appeared in 'The Morning Post' of July 21, 1800, under the title, 'The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale. A Character'. It was then unsigned.--Ed.] * * * * * POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES ADVERTISEMENT By Persons resident in the country and attached to rural objects, many places will be found unnamed or of unknown names, where little Incidents will have occurred, or feelings been experienced, which will have given to such places a private and peculiar interest. From a wish to give some sort of record to such Incidents or renew the gratification of such Feelings, Names have been given to Places by the Author and some of his Friends, and the following Poems written in consequence. [A]--W. W. 1800. [Footnote A: It should be explained that owing to the chronological plan adopted in this edition (see the preface to vol. i.), two of the poems which were placed by Wordsworth in his series of "Poems on the Naming of Places," but which belong to later years, are printed in subsequent volumes.--Ed.] * * * * * "IT WAS AN APRIL MORNING: FRESH AND CLEAR" Composed 1800.--Published 1800 [Written at Grasmere. This poem was suggested on the banks of the brook that runs through Easdale, which is, in some parts of its course, as wild and beautiful as brook can be. I have composed thousands of verses by the side of it.--I. F.]