_Sonnet_ XLIII.
-- --'a little rural town.' Ambleside.
VIII.

MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1803.
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*_Setting out_.
Mr.Coleridge, my sister, and myself started together from Town-End, to make a tour in Scotland, August [14th].

Poor Coleridge was at that time in bad spirits, and somewhat too much in love with his own dejection, and he departed from us, as is recorded in my sister's Journal, soon after we left Loch Lomond.

The verses that stand foremost among these memorials were not actually written for the occasion, but transplanted from my Epistle to Sir G.Beaumont.
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