The line is in stanza ii., l. 1: 

  November chill blaws loud, wi’ angry sugh.—­Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote vi:  This long passage occupies, in the edition of 1793, the place of lines 297-314 in the final text given above.—­Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote vii: 

  “So break those glittering shadows, human joys”

(Young).—­W.  W. 1793.

The line occurs ‘Night V, The Complaint’, l. 1042, or l. 27 from the end.—­Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote viii: 

  “Charming the night-calm with her powerful song.”

A line of one of our older poets.—­W.  W. 1793.

This line I have been unable to discover, but see Webster and Dekker in ‘Westward Hoe’, iv. c.

  “Charms with her excellent voice an awful silence through all this
  building.”

Ed.]

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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT

[Footnote A:  See note to the “Juvenile Pieces” in the edition of 1836 (p. 1).—­Ed.]

[Footnote B:  It may not be irrelevant to mention that our late poet, Robert Browning, besought me—­both in conversation, and by letter—­to restore this “discarded” picture, in editing ’Dion’.—­Ed.]

[Footnote C:  These lines are only applicable to the middle part of that lake.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote D:  In the beginning of winter, these mountains, in the moonlight nights, are covered with immense quantities of woodcocks; which, in the dark nights, retire into the woods.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote E:  The word ‘intake’ is local, and signifies a mountain-inclosure.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote F:  Gill is also, I believe, a term confined to this country.  Glen, gill, and dingle, have the same meaning.—­W.  W. 1793.

The spelling “Ghyll” is first used in the edition of 1820 in the text.  In the note to that edition it remains “gill”.  In 1827 the spelling in the note was “ghyll.”—­Ed.]

[Footnote G:  Compare Dr. John Brown: 

  Not a passing breeze
  Sigh’d to the grove, which in the midnight air
  Stood motionless, and in the peaceful floods
  Inverted hung.

and see note A to page 31.—­Ed. [Footnote U of this poem]]

[Footnote H:  This line was first inserted in the edition of 1845.  In the following line, the edition of 1793 has

  Save that, atop, the subtle ...

Subsequent editions previous to 1845 have

  Save that aloft ...

Ed.]

[Footnote J:  The reader, who has made the tour of this country, will recognize, in this description, the features which characterize the lower waterfall in the gardens of Rydale.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote K: 

  “Vivid rings of green.”

Greenwood’s Poem on Shooting.—­W.  W. 1793.

The title is ‘A Poem written during a Shooting Excursion on the Moors’.  It was published by Cruttwell at Bath in 1787, 4to, pp. 25.  The quotation is from stanza xvi., l. 11.—­Ed.]