Note 44 — Chapter XVII
Reading edition
See Wordsworth's sonnet, "22nd Sept. 1802."
"We had a fellow-passenger who came From Calais with us, gaudy in array,— A Negro Woman like a Lady gay, Yet silent as a woman fearing blame; Dejected, meek, yet pitiably tame, She sate, from notice turning not away, But on our proffered kindness still did lay A weight of languid speech, or at the same Was silent, motionless in eyes and face, She was a Negro Woman, driven from France— Rejected, like all others of that race, Not one of whom may now find footing there; Thus the poor outcast did to us declare, Nor murmured at the unfeeling Ordinance."