[345] Compare the first line of those _Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a Heap lying near a deserted Quarry, upon one of the Islands at Rydal_, vol. ii. p. 63.--ED. [346] Stone Arthur. See, in the “Poems on the Naming of Places,” the one beginning-- There is an Eminence, ED. [347] Bottom is a common Cumbrian word for valley.--ED. [348] Armboth, on the western side of Thirlmere.--ED. [349] Though in these occupations they would pass† [350] … prudent, …† [351] Of daily Providence …† [352] … obscurities† [353] Day-dreams, thoughts, and schemes.† † These variants occur in a letter of Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Poole.--ED. [354] All doubt as to these fragments being originally intended to form part of _Michael_ is set at rest by a letter from Wordsworth to Thomas Poole, of Nether Stowey, written from Grasmere on the 9th of April 1801, in which he gives first some new lines to be added to _Michael_, at pp. 210 and 211 of vol. ii. of the “Lyrical Ballads” (ed. 1800); to which letter Dorothy Wordsworth added the postscript, “My brother has written the following lines, to be inserted page 206, after the ninth line-- Murmur as with the sound of summer flies;” and then follow-- Though in these occupations they would pass Whole hours, etc. as printed above. Dorothy Wordsworth adds, “Tell whether you think the insertion of these lines an improvement.”--ED. [355] An erased version.--ED. 1802 “AMONG ALL LOVELY THINGS MY LOVE HAD BEEN” Composed April 12, 1802.--Published 1807 This poem--known in the Wordsworth household as _The Glowworm_--was written on the 12th of April 1802, during a ride from Middleham to Barnard Castle, and was published in the edition of 1807. It was never reproduced. The “Lucy” of this and other poems was his sister Dorothy. In a letter to Coleridge, written in April 1802, he thus refers to the poem, and to the incident which gave rise to it:--“I parted from M---- on Monday afternoon, about six o’clock, a little on this side Rushyford. Soon after I missed my road in the midst of the storm.… Between the beginning of Lord Darlington’s park at Raby, and two or three miles beyond Staindrop, I composed the poem the opposite page. I reached Barnard Castle about half-past ten.… The incident of this poem took place about seven years ago between my sister and me.”