... point ... 1816. ] [Footnote 107: 1837. Towards the ... 1816. ] [Footnote 108: 1827. ... incline his ear, Hallowing himself the service which they frame;-- 1816. ] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote AO: "Without a cultivation of military virtues."--W. W. 1845.] [Footnote AP: In all editions subsequent to that of 1816, this paragraph was omitted.--ED.] [Footnote AQ: This "Advertisement" was prefixed to the poem, in all editions from 1816 to 1843. In 1845, when part of the _Ode_, beginning Imagination--ne'er before content was detached from the rest, and turned into a separate _Ode_, with the date 1815 appended, the "Advertisement" was thrown into a "note" at the end of the volume, and it retained this place in subsequent editions. In Lord Coleridge's copy of the edition of 1836-37--before the stanzas which were afterwards separated to form the second _Ode_--"Waterloo" is written.--ED.] [Footnote AR: The heights of Wansfell and Loughrigg.--ED.] [Footnote AS: The whole period of the Peninsular and Continental wars with Napoleon.--ED.] [Footnote AT: Wellington.--ED.] [Footnote AU: The outcome of Napoleonic ambition.--ED.] [Footnote AV: "A discipline the rule whereof is passion" (LORD BROOKE).--W. W. 1816.] [Footnote AW: Compare the lines beginning O dearer far than light and life are dear, addressed to Mrs. Wordsworth in 1824.--ED.] [Footnote AX: Napoleon escaped from Elba in February 1815.--ED.] [Footnote AY: The Allied Sovereigns declared against Napoleon, March 1815.--ED.] [Footnote AZ: Wellington took the command in April 1815.--ED.] [Footnote BA: Napoleon's power being finally broken at Waterloo.--ED.] [Footnote BB: From Grasmere Church, over Rydal Mere.--ED.] ODE Composed 1816.--Published 1816 The first and the fourth stanzas of this _Ode_ formed stanzas ix. and xii. of the _Thanksgiving Ode_ from 1816 to 1842. In 1845 it was printed as number XLV. of the "Poems of the Imagination."--ED. I