Select poems . numbers sweet with natures vespers blending, With distant echo from the fold and lea,And herd-boys evening pipe, and hum of housing bee. Yet, once again, farewell, thou Minstrel Harp ! gsi Yet, once again, forgive raj feeble little reck I of the censure sharp May idly cavil at an idle la^^Much have I owed thy strains on lifes long way, 855 Through secret woes the world has never on the wearj^ night dawned wearier day, And bitterer was the grief devoured I oerlive such woes. Enchantress ! is thine own. Hark ! as my lingering footsteps slow retire, 8
Select poems . numbers sweet with natures vespers blending, With distant echo from the fold and lea,And herd-boys evening pipe, and hum of housing bee. Yet, once again, farewell, thou Minstrel Harp ! gsi Yet, once again, forgive raj feeble little reck I of the censure sharp May idly cavil at an idle la^^Much have I owed thy strains on lifes long way, 855 Through secret woes the world has never on the wearj^ night dawned wearier day, And bitterer was the grief devoured I oerlive such woes. Enchantress ! is thine own. Hark ! as my lingering footsteps slow retire, 86o Some Spirit of the Air has waked \\\y string ! Tis now a seraph bold, with touch of fire,Tis how the brush of Fairys frolic wing. Receding now, the dying numbers ring-Fainter and fainter down the rugged dell; 865 And now the mount^ain breezes scarcelj bringA wandering witch-note of the distant spell— And now, tis silent all! — Enchantress, fare thee well! >5t Flllanj To^ LOCH TAY BREADALOANE BCN MORE. L»TbfT( • ToDumb>rTon| ToBothwetlCasi ToMcgg<iiMc«ii-^ MAP OF THE COrXTKY OF THK LADY OF THE LAKE. NOTES. NOTES. WORDSWORTH. TO MY SISTER. Text. The text of this and other poems of Wordsworthis Knights reprint of Wordsworths final text of readings of other editions are given, partly fromcollations, chiefly from Knights list of variants. Circumstances of composition.—This poem was com-posed in 1798. in front of Alfoxden House IFenwick note*).and first published in Lyrical Ballads^ first ed. The title will be clearer if the earlier title in the be recalled— Lines written at a small distancefrom my house, and sent by my little boy to the jDersonto whom they were addressed. The present title wasadopted in 1815. Theme. Ostensibly chronicling a trivial incident indaily life, the poem really develops a fundamental part ofthe new philosophy of the interaction of nature andhuman life, which it was Wordsworths mission toproclaim. Page I. My
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