The lines towards the conclusion allude to the discontents then fomented thro' the country by the Agitators of the Anti-Corn-Law League: the particular causes of such troubles are transitory, but disposition to excite and liability to be excited, are nevertheless permanent and therefore proper objects of the Poet's regard.
I.POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH.
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*_Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in anticipation of leaving School_.
'Dear native regions,' &c.

1786.Hawkshead.The beautiful image with which this poem concludes suggested itself to me while I was resting in a boat along with my companions under the shade of a magnificent row of sycamores, which then extended their branches from the shore of the promontory upon which stands the ancient and at that time the more picturesque Hall of Coniston, the Seat of the Le Flemings from very early times.

The Poem of which it was the conclusion was of many hundred lines, and contained thoughts and images most of which have been dispersed through my other writings.
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Of the Poems in this class, 'The Evening Walk' and 'Descriptive Sketches' were first published in 1793.