LINENOTES:

[2] sun at dawn L. R.

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The Sun (for now his...o...b..'gan slowly sink) Shot half his rays aslant the heath whose flowers Purpled the mountain's broad and level top; Rich was his bed of clouds, and wide beneath Expecting Ocean smiled with dimpled face.

First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 278. Compare _This Lime-Tree Bower_ (1797), lines 32-7 (_ante_, pp. 179, 180).

19

Leanness, disquietude, and secret Pangs.

First published in _Notizbuch_, p. 351.

20

Smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin Ice.

First published in _Notizbuch_, p. 355.

21

Wisdom, Mother of retired Thought.

First published in 1893.

22

Nature wrote Rascal on his face, By chalcographic art!

First published in 1893.

23

In this world we dwell among the tombs And touch the pollutions of the Dead.

First published in 1893. Compare _Destiny of Nations_, ll. 177-8 (_ante_, p. 137).

24

The mild despairing of a Heart resigned.

First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 278.

25

Such fierce vivacity as fires the eye Of Genius fancy-craz'd.

First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 278. Compare _Destiny of Nations_, ll. 257, 258 (_ante_, p. 139).

26

----like a mighty Giantess Seiz'd in sore travail and prodigious birth Sick Nature struggled: long and strange her pangs; Her groans were horrible, but O! most fair The Twins she bore--EQUALITY and PEACE!

First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 278. Compare concluding lines of the second strophe of _Ode to the Departing Year_, 4{o}, 1796.

27

Discontent Mild as an infant low-plaining in its sleep.

First published in 1893.

28

----terrible and loud, As the strong Voice that from the Thunder-cloud Speaks to the startled Midnight.

First published in _Lit. Rem._, i. 278.

29

The swallows Interweaving there, mid the pair'd sea-mews At distance wildly-wailing!

First published in 1893.

30

The Brook runs over sea-weeds.

Sabbath day--from the Miller's merry wheel The water-drops dripp'd leisurely.

First published in 1893. It is possible the Fragments were some of the 'studies' for _The Brook_. See _Biog. Lit._, Cap. X, ed. 1907, i. 129.

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