[Variant 3: This stanza was added in the edition of 1815.]


[Variant 4:

1807

... be but gay, 1836.

The 1840 edition returns to the text of 1807.]


[Variant 5:

1815.

... laughing ... 1807.]



The following is from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal, under date,
Thursday, April 15, 1802:

"When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few
daffodils close to the water side. We fancied that the sea had floated
the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as
we went along there were more, and yet more; and, at last, under the
boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along
the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. I never saw
daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones, about and