[Ed. note: There is evidence that the "Matthew" of this and other poems represents William Taylor, headmaster of the school at Hawkshead, which Wordsworth attended from his eighth year to his sixteenth. Lines 21-24 are those which specially harmonize with Quaker beliefs. --Susan Barr]
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