[Footnote 3: 1836.
_the Wanderer, of whom he gives an account_-- 1814.
]
[Footnote 4: 1827.
From many a brooding cloud; far as the sight
Could reach, those many shadows lay in spots 1814.
]
[Footnote 5: 1845.
Pleasant to him who on the soft cool moss 1814.
]
[Footnote 6: 1845.
By that impending covert made more soft,
More low and distant! Other lot was mine;
Yet with good hope that soon I should obtain
As grateful resting-place, and livelier joy. 1814.
By power of that impending covert thrown
To finer distance. Other lot was mine; 1827.
... Other lot was mine;
Though with good hope to cheer the sultry hour
That under shade as grateful I should soon
Rest, and be welcomed there to livelier joy. C.
... Mine was at that hour
A toilsome lot, yet with good hope that soon
Under a shade as grateful I should find C.
]
[Footnote 7: 1845.
With languid feet, which by the slippery ground 1814.
With languid steps that ... 1827.
]
[Footnote 8:
Across a bare wide common I was toiling
When oft each footstep by the slippery turf
Was baffled: nor could my arm disperse
The host of insects gathered round my face,
And ever with me as I paced along.
Now with eyes turned towards the far-distant hills,
Now towards a grove that from the wide-spread moor
Rose up! the port to which my course was bound. C.
]
[Footnote 9: 1845.
Upon that open level stood a Grove,
The wished-for Port to which my steps were bound. 1814.
... my course was bound. 1827.
] [Footnote 10: 1845.
Him whom I sought; ... 1814.
]
[Footnote 11: 1827.
And in the middle of the public way
Stationed, as if to rest himself, with face
Turned tow'rds the sun then setting, while that staff
Afforded to his Figure, as he stood,
1814.
Him had I chanced to mark the day before
Alone, and stationed in the public way;
Westward he looked as if his gaze were fixed
Upon the sun then setting, ... C.
]
[Footnote 12: 1845.
... the countenance of the Man
Was hidden from my view, and he himself 1814.
... his countenance meanwhile
Was hidden from my view, and he remain'd 1827.
]
[Footnote 13: C. and 1845.
Beneath the shelter ... 1814.
]
[Footnote 14: 1845.
We were tried Friends: I from my Childhood up
Had known him.--In a little Town obscure,
A market-village, seated in a tract
Of mountains, where my school-day time was pass'd,
One room he owned, the fifth part of a house,
A place to which he drew, from time to time, 1814.
We were tried Friends: amid a pleasant vale,
In the antique market village where were pass'd
My school-days, an apartment he had own'd,
To which at intervals the Wanderer drew, 1827.
]
[Footnote 15: 1827.
On holidays, we wandered through the woods,
A pair of random travellers; we sate--
We walked; he pleas'd me with his sweet discourse 1814.
]
[Footnote 16: 1827.
... he sang 1814.
]
[Footnote 17: 1814.
Old songs brought with him from his native hills; C.
]
[Footnote 18: 1827.
The doings, observations, which his mind 1814.
His habits, observations, and the thoughts
He cherished-- ... MS.
]
[Footnote 19: 1827.
There, ... 1814.
]
[Footnote 20: 1827
His Father dwelt; and died in poverty;
While He, whose lowly fortune I retrace,
The youngest of three sons, was yet a babe,
A little One--unconscious of their loss.
But ere he had outgrown his infant days
His widowed Mother, for a second Mate,
Espoused the Teacher of the Village School;
Who on her offspring zealously bestowed
Needful instruction; not alone in arts
Which to his humble duties appertained,
But in the lore of right and wrong, the rule
Of human kindness, in the peaceful ways
Of honesty, and holiness severe.
A virtuous Household ... 1814.
]
[Footnote 21: 1827.
To his Step-father's School, that stood alone, 1814.
]
[Footnote 22: 1827.
Far from the sight ... 1814.
]
[Footnote 23: 1836.
He had ... 1814.
]
[Footnote 24: 1845.
... had impressed
Great objects on his mind, with portraiture
And colour so distinct, that on his mind
They lay like substances, and almost seemed
To haunt the bodily sense. He had received 1814.
... had impressed
Upon his mind great objects so distinct
In portraiture, in colouring so vivid,
That on his mind they lay like substances,
And almost indistinguishably mixed
With things of bodily sense.... C.
]
[Footnote 25:
(Vigorous in native genius as he was)