as Wordsworth's answer to the question, "What feeling for external
nature had such a man as Michael?" The lines, which correspond to
lines 62-77 of the poem, are as follows;

"No doubt if you in terms direct had asked
Whether beloved the mountains, true it is
That with blunt repetition of your words
He might have stared at you, and said that they
Were frightful to behold, but had you then
Discoursed with him . . . . . . . .
Of his own business and the goings on
Of earth and sky, then truly had you seen
That in his thoughts there were obscurities,
Wonder and admiration, things that wrought
Not less than a religion of his heart."


17. In Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal for October 11, 1800, we read:
"After dinner, we walked up Greenhead Gill in search of a
sheepfold. . . The sheepfold is falling away. It is built in the form
of a heart unequally divided."

48. THE MEANING OF ALL WINDS. This is not a figurative Statement.
Michael knows by experience whether the sound and direction of the wind
forebode storm or fair weather,--precisely the practical kind of
knowledge which a herdsman should possess.

51. SUBTERRANEOUS. The meaning of this word has given rise to
discussion. "Subterraneous" cannot here be literally employed, unless
it refer to the sound of the wind in hollow places, and beneath