... ask no more: Doubt not that oft-times in her soul she felt The unbounded might of prayer--upon her knees Was taught that heavenly consolation springs From sources deeper far than deepest pain For the meek Sufferer. Why then should we read The forms of things with a dejected eye? C. ] [Footnote 97: 1836. ... did to my heart convey 1814. ] [Footnote 98: 1845. The passing shews ... 1814. ] [Footnote 99: 1845. Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away 1814. ] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote S: In a copy of the quarto edition of _The Excursion_ (1814) bequeathed by the Poet to his grandson, the Rev. John Wordsworth, there are numerous changes of text in his own handwriting, or that of his wife. The majority of these were incorporated in later editions. Several of them, however, were not. These are reproduced in this edition, wherever it has been thought expedient to preserve them, and are indicated as "MS." readings. On the fly-leaf of the same presentation copy of the 1814 edition, Mrs. Wordsworth wrote out Mr. R. P. Gillies' sonnet, addressed to the author of _The Excursion_.--ED.] [Footnote T: Compare _An Evening Walk_ (vol. i. p. 9)-- When, in the south, the wan noon, brooding still, Breathed a pale steam around the glaring hill. ED. ] [Footnote U: Compare _An Evening Walk_ (vol. i. p. 11)-- And its own twilight softens the whole scene. ED. ] [Footnote V: Compare the sonnet composed in boyhood, beginning-- Sweet was the walk along the narrow lane, and printed in an Appendix to vol. viii.--ED.] [Footnote W: Compare the _Sonnet composed at ---- Castle_, in the "Memorials of a Tour in Scotland," 1803 (vol. ii. p. 410)-- A brotherhood of venerable Trees. ED. ] [Footnote W1: Hawkshead. Compare the notes to _The Prelude_, in books i. and ii. The Fenwick note tells us, "At Hawkshead, while I was a schoolboy, there occasionally resided a Packman, with whom I had frequent conversations upon what had befallen him, and what he had observed, during his wandering life; and, as was natural, we took much to each other."--ED.] [Footnote X: Compare the _Elegiac Stansas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm_ (vol. iii. p. 54)-- The consecration, and the Poet's dream; and the Discourse on Poetry in the Preface to the "Lyrical Ballads" of 1800. See the _Prose Works_.--ED.] [Footnote Y: Compare Sir Henry Taylor, _Philip van Artevelde_, act 1. scene v.-- The world knows nothing of its greatest men. ED. ] [Footnote Z: Compare Horace, _Epistles_ i. 17, 10-- Nec vixit male qui natus moriensque fefellit. ED. ] [Footnote AA: Compare _Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle_ (vol. iii. p. 54)--