she inquired how we had fared, if we had had a good fire, had been well waited upon, etc. etc. All this in three minutes--for the boatman had another party to bring from the other side, and hurried us off. "The hospitality we had met with at the two cottages and Mr. Macfarlane's gave us very favourable impressions on this our first entrance into the Highlands, and at this day the innocent merriment of the girls, with their kindness to us, and the beautiful figure and face of the elder, come to my mind whenever I think of the ferry-house and waterfall of Loch Lomond, and I never think of the two girls but the whole image of that romantic spot is before me, a living image, as it will be to my dying day." See The Poetical Works, vol. ii. pp. 389, 390, and the Fenwick note.--ED. VARIANTS: [Footnote 536: 1832. Her step ... 1822. ] [Footnote 537: 1837. ... pass before my eyes, 1822. ... flit before my eyes, 1832. ] [Footnote 538: 1840. Her goings ... 1837. ] [Footnote 539: 1837. ... of Inversneyd! Time ... 1822. In editions of 1822 to 1832, the first six lines of stanza v. were joined to the last seven of stanza vi., making up a single stanza (No. v.), and concluding the poem.] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote IM: See the Author's Miscellaneous Poems, vol. ii.--W. W. 1822.] [Footnote IN: I retain Wordworth's spelling of the name of this place.--ED.] XXVIII THE COLUMN INTENDED BY BUONAPARTE FOR A TRIUMPHAL EDIFICE IN MILAN, NOW LYING BY THE WAY-SIDE IN THE SIMPLON PASS[540] Ambition--following down this far-famed slope Her Pioneer, the snow-dissolving Sun, While clarions prate of kingdoms to be won-- Perchance, in future ages, here may stop; Taught to mistrust her flattering horoscope 5 By admonition from this prostrate Stone! Memento uninscribed of Pride o'erthrown; Vanity's hieroglyphic; a choice trope In Fortune's rhetoric. Daughter of the Rock, Rest where thy course was stayed by Power divine! The Soul transported sees, from hint of thine, 11 Crimes which the great Avenger's hand provoke, Hears combats whistling o'er the ensanguined heath: What groans! what shrieks! what quietness in death! Mrs. Wordsworth's Journal contains the following reference to this "column":--"Sat., 9th Sept. (From Bavana to Domo d'Ossola.)--... The fine column--Buonaparte's--seen to-day, arrested here by the news of his overthrow, on its way to form a part of the triumphal arch at Milan!"