London, 1810.) Potts speaks of the "pellucid waters" of the Dove.

"It is transparent to the bottom." (See Whately, 'Observations on Modern Gardening', p.

114.)--Ed.] [Footnote L: Doubtless Wharfedale, Wensleydale, and Swaledale .-- Ed.] [Footnote M: Compare 'Paradise Lost', v.

310, and in Chapman's 'Blind Beggar of Alexandria': 'Now see a morning in an evening rise.' Ed.] [Footnote N: For glimpses of the friendship of Dorothy Wordsworth and Coleridge, see the 'Life' of the poet in the last volume of this edition .-- Ed.] [Footnote O: The absence referred to--"separation desolate"-- may refer both to the Hawkshead years, and to those spent at Cambridge; but doubtless the brother and sister met at Penrith, in vacation time from Hawkshead School; and, after William Wordsworth had gone to the university, Dorothy visited Cambridge, while the brother spent the Christmas holidays of 1790 at Forncett Rectory in Norfolk, where his sister was then staying, and where she spent several years with their uncle Cookson, the Canon of Windsor.

It is more probable that the "separation desolate" refers to the interval between this Christmas of 1790 and their reunion at Halifax in 1794.