[XXX.] These verses and the preceding ones, entitled 'Liberty,' were composed as one piece, which Mrs.W.complained of as unwieldy and ill-proportioned; and accordingly it was divided into two, on her judicious recommendation.
[Printed notes: 'The rocking-stones alluded to in the beginning of the following verses are supposed to have been used, by our British ancestors, both for judicial and religious purposes.

Such stones are not uncommonly found, at this day, both in Great Britain and in Ireland.' On l.

32, 'Descending to the worm in charity:' 'I am indebted here to a passage in one of Mr.Digby's valuable works.'] 447.

*_Thought on the Seasons_.

[XXXI.] Written at Rydal Mount, 1829.
448.