And you, ye five wild torrents fiercely glad! ... ...  Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? ...  O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, ...  The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly;

Compare also Shelley’s ’Mont Blanc’.—­Ed.]

[Footnote Ff:  See note on Coleridge’s ‘Hymn before Sun-rise’ on previous page.—­Ed.[in Footnote Ff directly above]]

[Footnote Gg:  An insect so called, which emits a short, melancholy cry, heard, at the close of the summer evenings, on the banks of the Loire.—­W.  W, 1793.]

[Footnote Hh:  The duties upon many parts of the French rivers were so exorbitant that the poorer people, deprived of the benefit of water carriage, were obliged to transport their goods by land.—­W.  W. 1793.]

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SUB-FOOTNOTES

[Sub-Footnote i:  In the edition of 1815, the 28 lines, from “No sad vacuities” to “a wanderer came there,” are entitled “Pleasures of the Pedestrian.”—­Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote ii:  See ‘Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude’, l. 54: 

  The meanest floweret of the vale,
  The simplest note that swells the gale.

Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote iii:  In the editions of 1820 to 1832 the four lines beginning “The Grison gypsey,” etc., precede those beginning “The mind condemned,” etc.—­Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote iv:  In the edition of 1793 Wordsworth put the following note: 

  “Red came the river down, and loud, and oft
  The angry Spirit of the water shriek’d.”

(HOME’S Douglas.)

See Act III. l. 86; or p. 32 in the edition of 1757.—­Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote v:  This and the following line are only in the editions of 1815 and 1820.—­Ed.]

[Sub-Footnote vi:  Compare the Sonnet entitled ’The Author’s Voyage down the Rhine, thirty years ago’, in the “Memorials of a Tour on the Continent’ in 1820, and the note appended to it.—­Ed.]

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GUILT AND SORROW; OR, INCIDENTS UPON SALISBURY PLAIN

Composed 1791-4.—­Published as ‘The Female Vagrant’ in “Lyrical Ballads” in 1798, and as ‘Guilt and Sorrow’ in the “Poems of Early and Late Years,” and in “Poems written in Youth,” in 1845, and onward.

  ADVERTISEMENT, PREFIXED TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS POEM, PUBLISHED
  IN 1842.