... may brush from off his cheek The too, too happy tear! 1832. [527] Robin Hood.--ED. [528] The following version of ll. 80-101, is given in a MS. letter:-- Like notes of birds that after showers In April concert try their powers, And with a tumult and a rout Of warbling, force coy Phoebus out; Or bid some dark cloud's bosom show That form divine, the many-coloured Bow. E'en so the thrillings of the Lyre Prevail to further our desire, While to these shades a Nymph I call. The youngest of the lovely three; With glowing cheeks from pastimes virginal Behold her hastening to the tents Of Nature, and the lonely elements! And as if wishful to disarm Or to repay the tuneful charm She bears the stringed lute of old Romance,--ED. [529] Dora Wordsworth.--ED. [530] 1836. ... a Nymph I call, The youngest of the lovely Three.-- "Come, if the notes thine ear may pierce, Submissive to the might of verse, By none ... 1820. [531] 1836. And ... 1829. [532] 1836. How light her air!... 1829. [533] Compare _L'Allegro_, ll. 11-13-- Thou Goddess fair and free In heaven yclept Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth.--ED. [534] 1832. Choicest flower ... 1829. [535] The wild anemone.--ED. [536] 1836. Yet is it ... 1829. [537] 1836. Though where she is beloved and loves, as free As bird that rifles blossoms on a tree, 1829. [538] According to Sara Coleridge this was an allusion to a likeness supposed to have been found in the poet's daughter's countenance to the Memnon Head in the British Museum. See Sara Coleridge's _Memoirs_, vol. ii. p. 410.--ED. [539] 1840. ... the genuine law. 1836. [540] 1845. ... there ensue Aught untoward ... 1832. [541] 1832. Nature, from thy perfect law! Through benign affections pure In the light of self secure, If from what her hand would do Or tongue utter, there ensue Aught untoward or unfit, Transient mischief, vague mischance Shunned by guarded elegance. 1829. [542] 1829. Only minister to quicken Sallies of instinctive wit; Unchecked in laughter-loving gaiety In all the motions of her spirit free. MS. [543] 1832. ... that Oberon the fairy 1829. [544] Sara Coleridge.--ED. [545] Compare in _The Wishing-Gate Destroyed_, stanza 4-- ... the charm is fled.--ED. THE WISHING-GATE Composed 1828.--Published 1829 [Written at Rydal Mount. See also _Wishing-gate Destroyed_.--I. F.] In the vale of Grasmere, by the side of the old high-way leading to Ambleside, is a gate, which, time out of mind, has been called the Wishing-gate, from a belief that wishes formed or indulged there have a favourable issue.--W. W. 1828.[546] One of the "Poems of the Imagination."--ED.