Even now this creed do entertain MS. This holy creed do entertain MS.] [Variant 5: 1845. Yet find that other strength, ... 1807. Yet find thy firm support, ... 1837.] [Variant 6: 1827. Resolved that nothing e'er should press Upon my present happiness, I shoved unwelcome tasks away; 1807. Full oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred The task imposed, from day to day; 1815.] [Variant 7: But henceforth I would ... MS.] [Variant 8: 1827. ... which ... 1807.] [Variant 9: Yet not the less would I throughout Still act according to the voice Of my own wish; and feel past doubt That my submissiveness was choice: Not seeking in the school of pride For "precepts over dignified," Denial and restraint I prize No farther than they breed a second Will more wise. Only in the edition of 1807.] [Variant 10: ... more ... MS.] * * * * * FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: This motto was added in the edition of 1837.--Ed.] [Footnote B: Compare S. T. C. in 'The Friend' (edition 1818, vol. iii. p. 62), "Its instinct, its safety, its benefit, its glory is to love, to admire, to feel, and to labour." Ed.] [Footnote C: Compare Churchill's 'Gotham', i. 49: 'An Englishman in chartered freedom born.' Ed.] [Footnote D: Compare in 'Sartor Resartus', "Happy he for whom a kind of heavenly sun brightens it [Necessity] into a ring of Duty, and plays round it with beautiful prismatic refractions." Ed.] [Footnote E: Compare Persius, 'Satura', ii. l. 38: 'Quidquic calcaverit hic, rosa fiat.' And Ben Jonson, in 'The Sad Shepherd', act I. scene i. ll. 8, 9: 'And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.' Also, a similar reference to Aphrodite in Hesiod, 'Theogony', vv. 192 'seq.'--Ed.] [Footnote F: Compare S. T. C. in 'The Friend' (edition 1818), vol. iii. p. 64.--Ed.] Mr. J. R. Tutin has supplied me with the text of a proof copy of the sheets of the edition of 1807, which was cancelled by Wordsworth, in which the following stanzas take the place of the first four of that edition: 'There are who tread a blameless way In purity, and love, and truth, Though resting on no better stay Than on the genial sense of youth: Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot; Who do the right, and know it not: May joy be theirs while life shall last And may a genial sense remain, when youth is past. Serene would be our days and bright; And happy would our nature be; If Love were an unerring light; And Joy its own security. And bless'd are they who in the main, This creed, even now, do entertain, Do in this spirit live; yet know That Man hath other hopes; strength which elsewhere must grow.