FOOTNOTES


[Footnote A: In the 'Prelude', he says it was "three summer days." See
book xiii. l. 337.--Ed.]


[Footnote B: By an evident error, corrected in the first reprint of this
edition (1840). See p. 37.--Ed.[Footnote D of 'Descriptive Sketches',
the preceding poem in this text.]]


[Footnote C: From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by
my schoolfellow and friend Charles Farish, long since deceased. The
verses were by a brother of his, a man of promising genius, who died
young.--W. W. 1842.

Charles Farish was the author of 'The Minstrels of Winandermere'.--Ed.]


[Footnote D: Compare Milton's "grinding sword," 'Paradise Lost', vi. l.
329.--Ed.]



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