[Sub-Variant 7:  This couplet was withdrawn in 1827.]

[Sub-Variant 8: 

    Behind the hill ... 1836.]

[Sub-Variant 9: 

    Near and yet nearer, from the piny gulf
    Howls, by the darkness vexed, the famished wolf, 1836.]

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FOOTNOTES

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

[Footnote B:  There is something characteristic in Wordsworth’s addressing an intimate travelling companion in this way.  S. T. C., or Charles Lamb, would have written, as we do, “My dear Jones”; but Wordsworth addressed his friend as “Dear Sir,” and described his sister as “a Young Lady,” and as a “Female Friend.”—­Ed.]

[Footnote C:  In a small pocket copy of the ‘Orlando Furioso’ of Ariosto—­now in the possession of the poet’s grandson, Mr. Gordon Wordsworth—­of which the title-page is torn away, the following is written on the first page, “My companion in the Alps with Jones.  W. Wordsworth:”  also “W.  W. to D. W.” (He had given it to his sister Dorothy.) On the last page is written, “I carried this Book with me in my pedestrian tour in the Alps with Jones.  W. Wordsworth.”  Dorothy Wordsworth gave this interesting relic to Miss Quillinan, from whose library it passed to that of its present owner.—­Ed.]

[Footnote D:  By an evident error, corrected in the first reprint of this edition (1840).  See p. 79.—­Ed. [the end of the introductory text to ‘Guilt and Sorrow’, the next poem in this text.]]

[Footnote E:  See Addison’s ‘Cato’, Act 1.  Scene i., l. 171: 

  Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.—­Ed.]

[Footnote F:  The lyre of Memnon is reported to have emitted melancholy or chearful tones, as it was touched by the sun’s evening or morning rays.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote G:  Compare Pope’s ‘Windsor Forest’, ll. 129, 130;

  He lifts the tube, and levels with his eye: 
  Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky: 

Ed.]

[Footnote H:  Alluding to crosses seen on the tops of the spiry rocks of the Chartreuse, which have every appearance of being inaccessible.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote J:  Compare Milton’s ‘Ode on the Nativity’, stanza xx.—­Ed.]

[Footnote K:  Names of rivers at the Chartreuse.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote L:  Name of one of the valleys of the Chartreuse.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote M:  The river along whose banks you descend in crossing the Alps by the Simplon Pass—–­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote N:  Most of the bridges among the Alps are of wood and covered:  these bridges have a heavy appearance, and rather injure the effect of the scenery in some places.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote P:  The Catholic religion prevails here; these cells are, as is well known, very common in the Catholic countries, planted, like the Roman tombs, along the roadside.—­W.  W. 1793.]