The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8) · Chapter 32Appendix VIII

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An Evening Walk

(1) l. 219,

"His neck, a varying arch, between his towering wings."

Compare

Paradise Lost

, book vii. l. 438.

(2) l. 286, in the footnote reading of 1793, the line occurs

"Or clock, that blind against the wanderer borne."

This refers to the winged beetle, the buzzard-clock.

(3) l. 323, "The bird, etc." The owl. Compare Cowper's

Task

, i. ll. 205, 206.

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