[319] Compare, in Bacon’s Essay _Of Youth and Age_, “A certaine Rabbine upon the Text, _Your Young Men shall see visions, and your Old Men shall dream dreames_, inferreth that Young Men are admitted nearer to God than Old, because _Vision_ is a clearer Revelation than a Dreame.” See Professor Max Müller’s note to his translation of the Upanishads (_Sacred Books of the East_, vol. xv. p. 164), beginning “Drivudagomga uses a curious argument in support of the existence of another world.”--ED. [320] 1807. … pleasure … MS. [321] 1815. A four years’ Darling … 1807. [322] See, in Daniel’s _Musophilus_, the introductory sonnet to Fulke Greville, l. 1.--ED. [323] 1807. … presence … MS. [324] This line is not in the editions of 1807 and 1815. [325] The editions of 1807 and 1815 have, after “put by”: To whom the grave Is but a lowly bed without the sense or sight Of day or the warm light, A place of thought where we in waiting lie; MS. The subsequent omission of these lines was due to Coleridge’s disapproval of them, expressed in _Biographia Literaria_.--ED. [326] 1815. Of untamed pleasures, on thy Being’s height, 1807. [327] 1807. The world upon thy noble nature seize With all its vanities, And custom … MS. [328] Compare _The Excursion_, book iv. ll. 205, 206-- Alas! the endowment of immortal power Is matched unequally with custom, time. ED. [329] 1827. Perpetual benedictions: … 1807. [330] 1815. Of Childhood, whether fluttering or at rest, With new-born hope for ever in his breast: 1807. [331] 1815. Uphold us, cherish us, and make 1807. [332] 1836. Think not of any severing … 1807. [333] Professor Dowden writes of this line: “It is a sunset reflection, natural to one who has ‘kept watch o’er man’s mortality’: the day is closing, as human lives have closed; the sun went forth out of his chamber as a strong man to run a race, and now the race is over and the palm has been won: all things have their hour of fulfilment.” (See vol. v. p. 365, of his edition of Wordsworth’s Poems.)--ED. [334] Compare the introduction to the first canto of _Marmion_-- The vernal sun new life bestows Upon the meanest flower that blows, ED. [335] Compare Wither’s _The Shepherds Hunting_, the fourth eclogue, ll. 368-380.--ED. [336] The text of Pindar, as given by S.T.C., is corrected in the above quotation.--ED. POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND BY DOROTHY WORDSWORTH NOT INCLUDED IN THE EDITION OF 1849-50 1787 SONNET, ON SEEING MISS HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS WEEP AT A TALE OF DISTRESS[337] She wept.--Life’s purple tide began to flow In languid streams through every thrilling vein; Dim were my swimming eyes--my pulse beat slow, And my full heart was swell’d to dear delicious pain.