COLERIDGE.
'Jany'.

1807.
* * * * * FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: Different reading on same MS.: 'To one cast forth, whose Hope had seem'd to die.' Ed.] [Footnote B: Compare, as an illustrative note, the descriptive passage in Satyrane's first Letter in 'Biographia Literaria', beginning, "A beautiful white cloud of foam," etc .-- S.T.C.] [Footnote C: Different reading on same MS., "'my'."-- Ed.] [Footnote D: Different reading on same MS., "'and'."-- Ed.] In a MS.

copy of 'Dejection, An Ode', transcribed for Sir George Beaumont on the 4th of April 1802--and sent to him, when living with Lord Lowther at Lowther Hall--there is evidence that the poem was originally addressed to Wordsworth.
The following lines in this copy can be compared with those finally adopted: 'O dearest William! in this heartless mood, To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd All this long eve so balmy and serene Have I been gazing on the western sky,' ...
'O William, we _receive_ but what we _give_: And in our life alone does Nature live.' ...
'Yes, dearest William! Yes! There was a time when though my Path was rough This Joy within me dallied with distress.' The MS.

copy is described by Coleridge as "imperfect"; and it breaks off abruptly at the lines: 'Suspends what Nature gave me at my birth My shaping spirit of Imagination.' And he continues: 'I am so weary of this doleful poem, that I must leave off....' Another MS.

copy of this poem, amongst the Coleorton papers, is signed "S.