When I came to this part of the series I had the dream described 
      in this Sonnet. The figure was that of my daughter, and the whole 
      passed exactly as here represented. The Sonnet was composed on the 
      middle road leading from Grasmere to Ambleside: it was begun as I 
      left the last house of the vale, and finished, word for word as it 
      now stands, before I came in view of Rydal. I wish I could say the 
      same of the five or six hundred I have written: most of them were 
      frequently retouched in the course of composition, and, not a few, 
      laboriously.
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        I have only further to observe that the intended Church which 
      prompted these Sonnets was erected on Coleorton Moor towards the 
      centre of a very populous parish between three and four miles from 
      Ashby-de-la-Zouch, on the road to Loughborough, and has proved, I 
      believe, a great benefit to the neighbourhood.