The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8)Wordsworth, William
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8)
Wordsworth, William
English poetry -- 18th century; English poetry -- 19th century
... I require,
And cannot find; what I myself have lost, 1814.
]
[Footnote 280: 1836.
Inverted trees, and rocks, and azure sky; 1814.
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[Footnote 281: 1836.
Perchance, a roar or murmur; ... 1814.
A softened roar, a murmur; ... 1827.
... Meanwhile, a roar
Is heard or soften'd murmur; ... MS.
]
[Footnote 282: 1845.
Must be again encountered.-- ... 1814.
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[Footnote 283: 1836.
... its ... 1814.
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FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote CS: There is still a single "yew-tree" high up the eastern side
of the valley on the face of Lingmoor Fell,
Darkening the silver bosom of the crag. ED.
]
[Footnote CT: The local allusions in this passage, and in what follows,
are most exact and literal. The three men are supposed to leave the
cottage, and to cross to the west side of the tarn, just a little to the
north of the fir-wood which overshadows it. The "barrier of steep rock"
is the low perpendicular crag to the west of the tarn, immediately below
the fir-wood, and the "semicirque of turf-clad ground" is apparent at a
glance, whether seen from below the rock or from above it. There are many
fragments of ice-borne rock, high up the flank of Blake Rigg to the west,
and on the slopes of Lingmoor to the east, which might at first sight be
mistaken for the stone, like
A stranded ship, with keel upturned, that rests
Fearless of winds and waves,
or the
fragment, like an altar;
but this particular mass of rock lay
Right at the foot of that moist precipice,
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