Note 3 — DOROTHY WORDSWORTH'S JOURNAL, WRITTEN AT ALFOXDEN IN 17982
Reading edition
Compare Keats, Miscellaneous Poems—
There crept A little noiseless noise amongst the leaves Born of the very sigh that silence heaves. Ed.
And Coleridge, The Æolian Harp—
The stilly murmur of the distant sea Tells us of silence. Ed.