I entertain no doubt that Wordsworth first of all met with the name of this bird, whip-pow-will, in Waterton's _Wanderings_ (a copy of which he possessed), and that he afterwards exchanged it--before sending his _Excursion_ to press, in 1814--for the more musical Indian name, Muccawiss. It is also worthy of note that Southey had transferred to his _Commonplace Book_ (see vol. ii. p. 567), Carver's account of the Whipper-will, or as it is termed by the Indians, Muckawiss. "As soon as night comes on these birds will place themselves on the fences, stumps, or stones that lie near some house, and repeat their melancholy note without any variation till midnight." (_Travels_, by Jonathan Carver, p. 467.)--ED.] =Book Fourth= DESPONDENCY CORRECTED ARGUMENT _State of feeling produced by the foregoing Narrative--A belief in a superintending Providence the only adequate support under affliction--Wanderer's ejaculation[284]--Acknowledges the difficulty of a lively faith--Hence immoderate sorrow[285]--Exhortations--How received--Wanderer applies[286] his discourse to that other cause of dejection in the Solitary's mind--Disappointment from[287] the French Revolution--States grounds[288] of hope, and insists[289] on the necessity of patience and fortitude with respect to the course of great revolutions[290]--Knowledge the source of tranquillity--Rural Solitude favourable to[291] knowledge of the inferior Creatures; Study of their habits and ways recommended;[292] exhortation to bodily exertion and communion[293] with Nature--Morbid Solitude pitiable[294]--Superstition better than apathy--Apathy and destitution unknown in the infancy of society--The various modes of Religion prevented it--Illustrated[295] in the Jewish, Persian, Babylonian, Chaldean, and Grecian modes of belief--Solitary interposes--Wanderer[296] points out the influence of religious and imaginative feeling in the humble ranks of society, illustrated[297] from present and past times--These principles[298] tend to recal exploded superstitions and popery--Wanderer rebuts this charge, and contrasts the dignities of the Imagination with the presumptuous[299] littleness of certain modern Philosophers--Recommends[300] other lights and guides--Asserts the power of the Soul to regenerate herself; Solitary asks how[301]--Reply--Personal appeal[302]-- Exhortation to activity of body renewed--How to commune with Nature--Wanderer concludes with a[303] legitimate union of the imagination, affections, understanding, and reason[304]--Effect of his discourse[305]--Evening; return to the Cottage._