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These verses and those entitled “Liberty” were composed as one piece, which Mrs. Wordsworth complained of as unwieldy and ill- proportioned; and accordingly it was divided into two on her judicious recommendation.The Rocking-stones, alluded to in the beginning of the following verses, are supposed to have been used, by our British ancestors, both for judicial and religious purposes. Such stones are not uncommonly found, at this day, both in Great Britain and in Ireland.