3 .-- Ed.] [Footnote B: The first two paragraphs of book i .-- Ed.] [Footnote C: April 1804: see the reference in book vi.l.

48 .-- Ed.] [Footnote D: Before he left for Malta, Coleridge had urged Wordsworth to complete this work .-- Ed.] [Footnote E: The summer of 1804 .-- Ed.] [Footnote F: Doubtless John's Grove, below White Moss Common.

On November 24, 1801, Dorothy Wordsworth wrote in her Journal, "As we were going along, we were stopped at once, at the distance perhaps of fifty yards from our favourite birch tree.

It was yielding to the gusty wind with all its tender twigs.

The sun shone upon it, and it glanced in the wind like a flying sunshiny shower.