[Footnote M: Hawkshead School, in which Wordsworth was taught for eight years--from 1778 to 1786--was founded by Archbishop Sandys of York, in 1585, and the building is still very much as it was in Wordsworth's time. The main school-room is on the ground floor. One small chamber on the first floor was used, in the end of last century, by the head master, as a private class-room, for teaching a few advanced pupils. In another is a small library, formed in part by the donations of the scholars; it having been a custom for each pupil to present a volume on leaving the school, or to send one afterwards. Very probably one of the volumes now in the library was presented by Wordsworth. There are several which were presented by his school-fellows, during the years in which Wordsworth was at Hawkshead. The master, in 1877, promised me that he would search through his somewhat musty treasures, to see if he could discover a book with the poet's autograph; but I never heard of his success. On the wall of the room containing the library is a tablet, recording the names of several masters. There also, in an old oak chest, is kept the original charter of the school. The oak benches downstairs are covered with the names or initials of the boys, deeply cut; and, amongst them, the name of William Wordsworth--but not those of his brothers Richard, John, or Christopher--may be seen. For further details as to the Hawkshead School, see the 'Life' of the Poet in this edition. Towards the close of last century, when Wordsworth and his three brothers were educated there, the school was one of the best educational institutions in the north of England.--Ed.] [Footnote N: Compare in the lines beginning "She was a Phantom of delight" p. 2: 'Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food.' Ed.] [Footnote O: Compare book iv. ll. 50 and 383, with relative notes--Ed.] [Footnote P: Compare in 'Fidelity', p. 45: 'There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer.' Ed.] [Footnote Q: Compare the 'Ode, Intimations of Immortality', stanza v.--Ed.] [Footnote R: Compare, in 'Tintern Abbey', vol. ii. p.54: 'That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures.' And in the 'Ode, Intimations of Immortality', vol. viii.: 'What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight.' Ed.] [Footnote S: This friend of his boyhood, with whom Wordsworth spent these "delightful hours," is as unknown as is the immortal Boy of Windermere, who blew "mimic hootings to the silent owls," and who sleeps in the churchyard "above the village school" of Hawkshead, and the Lucy of the Goslar poems. Compare, however, p. 163. Wordsworth _may_ refer to John Fleming of Rayrigg, with whom he used to take morning walks round Esthwaite: '... five miles Of pleasant wandering ...' Ed.] [Footnote T: Esthwaite.--Ed.]