Note 14 — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814

We were tried Friends: I from my Childhood up Had known him.—In a little Town obscure, A market-village, seated in a tract Of mountains, where my school-day time was pass'd, One room he owned, the fifth part of a house, 1814. A place to which he drew, from time to time, We were tried Friends: amid a pleasant vale, In the antique market village where were pass'd My school-days, an apartment he had own'd, 1827. To which at intervals the Wanderer drew,