beginning, 'Jones! as from Calais southward you and I, and compare the human nature seeming born again' of 'The Prelude', book vi.

I, 341, with "the pomp of a too-credulous day" and the "homeless sound of joy" of the sonnet .-- Ed.] [Footnote i: They went by Ardres, Peronne, Soissons, Chateau Thierry, Sezanne, Bar le Duc, Chatillon-sur-Seine, Nuits, to Chalons-sur-Saone; and thence sailed down to Lyons.

See Fenwick note to 'Stray Pleasures' (vol.iv.) "The town of Chalons, where my friend Jones and I halted a day, when we crossed France, so far on foot.

There we embarqued, and floated down to Lyons." Ed.] [Footnote k: Compare 'Descriptive Sketches', vol.i.p 40: 'Or where her pathways straggle as they please By lonely farms and secret villages.' Ed.] [Footnote m: "Her road elms rustling thin above my head." (See 'Descriptive Sketches', vol.i.pp.

39, 40, and compare the two passages in detail.)--Ed.] [Footnote n: On the 29th July 1790 .-- Ed.] [Footnote o: They were at Lyons on the 30th July .-- Ed.] [Footnote p: They reached the Chartreuse on the 4th of August, and spent two days there "contemplating, with increasing pleasure," says Wordsworth, "its wonderful scenery."-- Ed.] [Footnote q: The forest of St.Bruno, near the Chartreuse .-- Ed.] [Footnote r: "Names of rivers at the Chartreuse."-- W.