--- slug: a-host-of-dancing-daffodills passed: 2026-11-02 by: ccr-81332fb3-8nrbtu wave, one independent agent on oversight/claims-pass.md (pre-deploy; reader check on local copies with AW_DIR; every source-record entry read against its kept copy and live source) checked: 175 confirmed: 133 wrong: 3 unverifiable: 0 observed: 39 stale: 0 --- # Claims pass: A Host of Dancing Daffodills Live page: not deployed yet; step 2 skipped. Reader check (pre-deploy, local copies): `AW_DIR= node verify-a-host-of-dancing-daffodills.mjs`, run with the verifier copied into a second empty directory: exit 0, 332 passed, 0 failed (inside the repository: 457 passed, 0 failed, nothing written; `--mutate` on the local copies: exit 1, 591 passed, 9 failed). Step 6: the page prints no transcript of the verifier; three sentence-only edits in scratch copies, each run alone, all caught: "and the best of them shares 10." to 9 (exit 1, 330 passed, 2 failed), "the best other window shares 12." to 11 (exit 1, 2 failed), and the visible dek's "in 18 lines" to 19 with the meta copies left alone (exit 1, 4 failed). With an aw-checkkind block, an aw-nearby block, the assay record.js tag, the Cloudflare beacon and the pulse script appended to a copy, it still passes (332 passed, 0 failed) and still fails on a planted figure (exit 1, 2 failed). Mutation sweep: a-host-of-dancing-daffodills: 233 mutated, 233 caught, 0 survived (text 0, meta 0, year 0). `assay/sources.mjs a-host-of-dancing-daffodills --online`: 121 FOUND, 39 in the repository, 1 NOT FOUND, 6 PARTIAL; the NOT FOUND (q-1804, OCR "daflfbdils. 1804.") and the six PARTIAL (q-ullswater, q-versions, q-couplet-w, q-note1815, q-bl-couplet, q-190) are OCR misreadings of scanned pages, and each was read on its page image, fetched again on 2026-11-02. Every scanned page the page quotes or cites (the three printings, their title pages, Memoirs pp. 182, 184, 185, 190 and title page, Biographia pp. 151-152 and title page, Golden Treasury p. 254 and verso) was fetched and read as an image, and the seven Project Gutenberg texts (#42856, #16550, #12383, #10219, #6081, #66619, #8824) were fetched live and searched for every quotation. The journal counts were recomputed from the printed rule in my own Python (scripts/recount.py in this directory), not by the engine or the verifier, and the instrument readouts app.mjs writes were captured in Playwright for every setting the prose describes. No claim is WRONG; `wrong` counts the three MINOR lines, which are near-misses in wording (findings 1 to 3). ## Claims - CONFIRMED | In 1807 Wordsworth printed his daffodil poem with no title, in 18 lines, spelling the flower two ways; by 1815 the host was golden, not dancing, and a new stanza made it 24 lines. | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n60_w1000.jpg | [dek-1807-18] images n60 and n61: heading "7." only; 18 lines in 3 stanzas; line 4 "Daffodills;", line 18 "Daffodils." - CONFIRMED | by 1815 the host was golden, not dancing, and a new stanza made it 24 lines. | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/page/n389_w1000.jpg | [dek-1815] images n389/n390: "A host of golden Daffodils;", 24 lines in 4 stanzas, stanza 2 new; Knight 1896 (live PG 12383): "This stanza was added in the edition of 1815." - OBSERVED | the poem shares more of its content words with that passage than with any other stretch of the same length in his text of her Grasmere Journal, though only just, and the revised text widens the gap. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [dek-data] 1807: 11 against a best of 10; 1815: 15 against 12 (margin 1 then 3) - CONFIRMED | Set beside his sister Dorothy's journal entry for 15 April 1802, as William Knight printed it in 1897 | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [dek-entry] live text: "_Thursday, 15th._--It was a threatening, misty morning, but mild." in section V (1802), after "_Tuesday, 13th April._"; 15 April 1802 was a Thursday (python datetime) - CONFIRMED | his sister Dorothy's journal entry | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft_djvu.txt | [dek-sister] genealogy under JOHN WORDSWORTH "had issue": "II. WILLIAM, born April 7, 1770" ... "III. DOROTHY, born Dec. 25, 1771." - CONFIRMED | which the 1851 Memoirs gave to his wife Mary | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n200_w1000.jpg | [dek-mary] p. 185 footnote (image): "These two lines were written by Mrs. Wordsworth."; p. 17 (OCR): "In the year 1802 I married Mary Hutchinson," - CONFIRMED | which Coleridge quoted in 1817 as an instance of 'thoughts and images too great for the subject' | https://archive.org/download/biographialitera03cole/page/n158_w1000.jpg | [dek-coleridge] image reads "Fifth and last; thoughts and images too great for the subject. This is an approximation to what might be called mental bombast, as distinguished from verbal" - CONFIRMED | The title of this page is the fourth line of the poem as it was first printed, in 1807: A host of dancing Daffodills; | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n60_w1000.jpg | [q-1807-4] image reads "A host of dancing Daffodills;" - CONFIRMED | The same printing spells the flower differently in its last line, And dances with the Daffodils. | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n61_w1000.jpg | [q-1807-18] image reads "And dances with the Daffodils." - CONFIRMED | the first, in 1807; | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12383/pg12383.txt | [first-1807] live text, line 359 under "I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD": "Composed 1804.--Published 1807"; Knight's note: "This was No. VII. in the series of Poems, entitled, in the edition of 1807, "Moods of my own Mind."" - CONFIRMED | the first with the added stanza, in 1815; | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n200_w1000.jpg | [first-1815] p. 185 (image), Reed's note: "[The second stanza was added in the edition of miscellaneous poems in 1815 ..."; Knight 1896: "This stanza was added in the edition of 1815." - CONFIRMED | Three printings from Wordsworth's lifetime are set out below | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft_djvu.txt | [lifetime] genealogy: "II. WILLIAM, born April 7, 1770 ; married Mary Hutchinson, of Penrith, 1802 ; died April 23d, 1850."; the latest printing is 1849 (title page MDCCCXLIX, image n8) - OBSERVED | each typed from the page images of one scanned copy, with every line linked to the page it is printed on | research/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/README.md; recreated: compared every line of the three transcriptions with images n60, n61, n389, n390, n106, n107 | [one-copy] README names each copy and its page images; texts.json gives every line its page; I re-read all 66 lines and both notes on the images: no differences, and each line's page assignment is right - OBSERVED | From 1807 to 1815 the poem grew from 18 lines to 24, and from 117 words to 153. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [diff-counts] 18 to 24 lines, 117 to 153 words (letters with an inner apostrophe or hyphen) - CONFIRMED | dancing became golden | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n60_w1000.jpg | [q-l1807-4-dancing] image reads "A host of dancing Daffodills;" - CONFIRMED | dancing became golden | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/page/n389_w1000.jpg | [q-l1815-4-golden] image reads "A host of golden Daffodils;" - CONFIRMED | Along became Beside | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n60_w1000.jpg | [q-l1807-5-along] image reads "Along the Lake, beneath the trees," - CONFIRMED | Along became Beside | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/page/n389_w1000.jpg | [q-l1815-5-beside] image reads "Beside the Lake, beneath the trees," - CONFIRMED | Ten thousand became Fluttering and | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n60_w1000.jpg | [q-l1807-6-ten] image reads "Ten thousand dancing in the breeze." - CONFIRMED | Ten thousand became Fluttering and | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/page/n389_w1000.jpg | [q-l1815-6-fluttering] image reads "Fluttering and dancing in the breeze." - CONFIRMED | laughing became jocund | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n60_w1000.jpg | [q-l1807-10-laughing] image reads "In such a laughing company:" - CONFIRMED | laughing became jocund | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/page/n389_w1000.jpg | [q-l1815-16-jocund] image reads "In such a jocund company:" - CONFIRMED | the ten thousand moved into it: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/page/n389_w1000.jpg | [q-1815-11] image reads "Ten thousand saw I at a glance," - OBSERVED | One stanza of six lines and 36 words was added | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [diff-more] one stanza, lines 7 to 12 of 1815, 36 words - OBSERVED | From 1815 to 1849 not a line was added: one word changed, shew to show, seven capitals were lowered, and six punctuation marks were added, dropped or replaced. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [diff-1849] shew to show; 7 capitals (Cloud, Vales, Hills, Daffodils, Lake, Poet, Daffodils); 6 marks (host, ; danced ;, glee dash dropped, gay, oft, solitude ;); also read on the images - CONFIRMED | None of the three printings gives the poem a title. | https://archive.org/download/poeticalworksrev02worduoft/page/n106_w1000.jpg | [no-title] headings read on images n60 ("7."), n389 ("XIII."), n106 ("X."): a numeral only, no title, in all three - CONFIRMED | In 1807 it is number 7 of the group Moods of my own Mind, in the second volume of Poems, in Two Volumes | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8824/pg8824.txt | [moods] live text (PG title "Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 2"): "MOODS OF MY OWN MIND. 1. _To a Butterfly_ ... 7." and "7. I wandered lonely as a Cloud"; vol. II title page (image n6) reads "VOL. II." 1807 - CONFIRMED | in 1815 it is number XIII of the Poems of the Imagination, in the first volume of Poems | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/cu31924105330140_djvu.txt | [imagination-1815] contents OCR: "POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION." ... "328 I wandered lonely"; image n389 heads it "XIII."; title page (image n10) "VOL. I." 1815 - CONFIRMED | in 1849 it is number X in the same class | https://archive.org/download/poeticalworksrev02worduoft/poeticalworksrev02worduoft_djvu.txt | [x-1849] OCR: "POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION. There was a Boy" (p. 79) with no later section heading before p. 93; image n106 heads it "X."; Knight 1896: "In 1815, and afterwards, it was classed by Wordsworth among his "Poems of the Imagination."" - CONFIRMED | the running head over it reads I WANDERED LONELY. | https://archive.org/download/poeticalworksrev02worduoft/page/n106_w1000.jpg | [q-runhead] images n106 and n107: running head "I WANDERED LONELY." over pp. 93 and 94 - CONFIRMED | Beside its last line the 1849 page prints a date, 1804., | https://archive.org/download/poeticalworksrev02worduoft/page/n107_w1000.jpg | [q-1804] NOT FOUND online (the OCR reads "daflfbdils. 1804."); image n107 reads "And dances with the daffodils." with "1804." set to its right on the same line - CONFIRMED | the year Wordsworth also gives in the note on the poem he dictated to Isabella Fenwick. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [fenwick-1804] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "Town-End, 1804. 'The Daffodils.'" - CONFIRMED | the note on the poem he dictated to Isabella Fenwick | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10219/pg10219.txt | [isabella] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "the Notes dictated by Wordsworth to Miss Isabella Fenwick" - OBSERVED | this page has fetched no other evidence of when it was written. | research/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/README.md | [no-other-date] README: "Searched for and not found ... any date for the poem beyond Wordsworth's own "1804" and Knight's heading "Composed 1804." (1896), which agrees" - CONFIRMED | Knight's edition of 1896 heads the poem Composed 1804. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12383/pg12383.txt | [q-knight1896-date] live text line 359, directly under ""I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD"": "Composed 1804.--Published 1807" (the first match in the file, line 181, belongs to another poem; the record's line 359 is the right one) - CONFIRMED | Writing to Lady Beaumont in a letter headed Coleorton, May 21, 1807, as Alexander Grosart printed it in 1876, he says of a reader: I collect this from her having singled out the two little poems, 'The Daffodils,' and 'The Rock crowned with Snowdrops.' | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [q-beaumont] live text, vol. II (between its title at line 14423 and "END OF VOL. II." at 27689): "Coleorton, May 21. 1807. MY DEAR LADY BEAUMONT, ..." and "I collect this from her having singled out the two little poems, 'The Daffodils,' and 'The Rock crowned with Snowdrops.'" (the "her" is Mrs. Fermor) - CONFIRMED | as Alexander Grosart printed it in 1876 | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [grosart-1876] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "BY THE REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, ST. GEORGE'S, BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE." - CONFIRMED | In a letter to his friend Wrangham | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n200_w1000.jpg | [wrangham-friend] image reads "Wordsworth wrote as follows, some time afterwards, to his friend Wrangham:" - CONFIRMED | he tells how a man called Butler happened | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [butler] live text: "You know Butler, Montagu's friend: not Tom Butler, but the Conveyancer:"; the Memoirs p. 185 (image) has the same with "friend ;" - CONFIRMED | headed only Grasmere, Nov. 4. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [q-nov4] live text: "137. _The Daffodils_. [xii.] Grasmere, Nov. 4." (the title is Grosart's item heading); the Memoirs p. 185 (image) heads the letter "'Grasmere, Nov. 4." with no year - CONFIRMED | he tells how a man called Butler happened to glance his eye upon the very poem of 'The Daffodils.' | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [q-butler] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "he happened to see the Volumes lying on Montagu's mantle-piece, and to glance his eye upon the very poem of 'The Daffodils.'" - CONFIRMED | the 1851 Memoirs prints the same words as to glance his eye upon the very poem of the "Daffodils." | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n200_w1000.jpg | [q-memoirs-name] image reads "and to glance his eye upon the very poem of the "Daffodils."" - CONFIRMED | And the Fenwick note begins Town-End, 1804. 'The Daffodils.' | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [q-fenwick-name] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "136. _I wandered lonely as a Cloud_. [XII.] [= 'The Daffodils.'] Town-End, 1804. 'The Daffodils.' The two best lines in it are by Mary." - CONFIRMED | Francis Turner Palgrave's Golden Treasury (1861) heads it THE DAFFODILS | https://archive.org/download/palgravegoldentr00palg/page/n269_w1000.jpg | [q-palgrave] image n269 (p. 254): "CCLIII" then "THE DAFFODILS" - CONFIRMED | Francis Turner Palgrave's Golden Treasury (1861) | https://archive.org/metadata/palgravegoldentr00palg/metadata | [palgrave-1861] catalogue record (fetched 2026-11-02): publisher "Cambridge ; London : Macmillan", date 1861; title page (OCR) "Cambridge MACMILLAN AND CO. ... 23 HENRIETTA STREET COVENT GARDEN 1861"; verso (image n5) "TENTH THOUSAND: DEC. 1861" - CONFIRMED | Francis Turner Palgrave's Golden Treasury (1861) | https://archive.org/metadata/palgravegoldentr00palg/metadata | [palgrave-name] catalogue record (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "Palgrave, Francis Turner, 1824-1897" - CONFIRMED | Arthur Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse (first edition 1900; the text checked is the impression of 1931) heads it Daffodils | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/66619/pg66619.txt | [q-qc] live text: "_530._ _Daffodils_ I wander’d lonely as a cloud" (Quiller-Couch drops Wordsworth's "The"; the page quotes both headings exactly) - CONFIRMED | (first edition 1900; the text checked is the impression of 1931) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/66619/pg66619.txt | [qc-1931] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "_Impression of 1931_ _First edition, 1900_" - CONFIRMED | Both begin I wander'd lonely as a cloud, a spelling none of the three Wordsworth printings uses. | https://archive.org/download/palgravegoldentr00palg/page/n269_w1000.jpg | [q-wanderd] image reads "I wander'd lonely as a cloud" - CONFIRMED | Both begin I wander'd lonely as a cloud | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/66619/pg66619.txt | [qc-wanderd] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "I wander’d lonely as a cloud" - CONFIRMED | a spelling none of the three Wordsworth printings uses. | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n60_w1000.jpg | [wandered-all] line 1 on images n60, n389, n106: "I wandered" (1815 and 1849 set WANDERED in small capitals); never "wander'd" - CONFIRMED | An instrument of the same kind runs one stanza of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát through five editions in A Leg of Mutton. | src/content/strata/a-leg-of-mutton.md | [mutton] the file holds "the stanza morphing across its five printings (the diff computed live)"; its dek: "rewritten across five editions over thirty years" - CONFIRMED | Dorothy Wordsworth kept a journal at Grasmere, and William Knight printed it, with omissions, in 1897. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [knight-omissions] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "In all cases, however, in which a sentence or paragraph, or several sentences and paragraphs, in the Journals are left out, the omission is indicated by means of asterisks." - CONFIRMED | Her entry headed Thursday, 15th., in April 1802 | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-knight-head] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "_Thursday, 15th._--It was a threatening, misty morning" - CONFIRMED | describes a walk by a lake in a furious wind | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [furious] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "The wind was furious, and we thought we must have returned." - CONFIRMED | in April 1802 | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [april-1802] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "_Tuesday, 13th April._--Mrs. C. waked me from sleep with a letter from Coleridge." - OBSERVED | and a passage of 210 words in it describes daffodils. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [passage-210] 210 words from "When we were in the woods beyond" to "like the sea" - CONFIRMED | Her we includes her brother: the same entry ends that evening at Dobson's, where William was sitting by a good fire when I came downstairs. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-fire] live text, same entry: "We set off after dinner from Eusemere." ... "At Dobson's I was very kindly treated by a young woman." ... "William was sitting by a good fire when I came downstairs." ... "It rained and blew, when we went to bed." then "_Friday, 16th April_" - CONFIRMED | the same entry ends that evening at Dobson's | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [dobsons] live text: "At Dobson's I was very kindly treated by a young woman." and the entry closes "It rained and blew, when we went to bed." - MINOR | The note Wordsworth dictated to Isabella Fenwick says the daffodils grew, and still grow, on the margin of Ullswater. | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n205_w1000.jpg | [q-ullswater] the words are verbatim from the Memoirs' printing of the note, p. 190 (image): "The daffodils grew, and still grow, on the margin of Ullswater,"; but the page attributes them to "The note Wordsworth dictated to Isabella Fenwick" without naming that printing, and the manuscript copy Grosart printed (the text the page itself uses for the note later) reads "The daffodils grew and still grow on the margin of Ulswater" (live PG 16550, item 136). See finding 3 - CONFIRMED | The 1851 Memoirs, two pages before it prints this passage, draws a moral from her account behind another poem, Beggars: his poems are sometimes little more than poetical versions of her descriptions of the objects which she had seen; and he treated them as seen by himself. | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n197_w1000.jpg | [q-versions] PARTIAL online (OCR spacing); image n197 (p. 182): "This poem, the Beggars, presents a remarkable illustration ... and his poems are sometimes little more than poetical versions of her descriptions of the objects which she had seen ; and he treated them as seen by himself." It follows her journal account of the beggar woman; the daffodil passage is on p. 184 (image n199), two pages on - CONFIRMED | Both of them were there, so a shared word shows the two texts overlap | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [both-there] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "When I returned _William_ was come." - CONFIRMED | Knight's prefatory note says that where he left sentences or paragraphs out, the omission is indicated by means of asterisks | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-asterisks] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "In all cases, however, in which a sentence or paragraph, or several sentences and paragraphs, in the Journals are left out, the omission is indicated by means of asterisks." - CONFIRMED | his text also breaks off inside entries with runs of dots, as it does just after this passage. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [dots] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "like the sea.... All was cheerless and gloomy" - CONFIRMED | below Gowbarrow Park where Knight has | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n199_w1000.jpg | [q-below] image reads "'When we were in the woods below Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. . . As we went along, there were more and yet more; and at last, under the boughs of the trees, we saw there was a long belt of them along the ..." - CONFIRMED | where Knight has beyond Gowbarrow Park | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-beyond] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. We fancied that the sea had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and yet ..." - CONFIRMED | they looked so gay and glancing. where Knight has | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n199_w1000.jpg | [q-glancing-m] image reads "'When we were in the woods below Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. . . As we went along, there were more and yet more; and at last, under the boughs of the trees, we saw there was a long belt of them along the ..." - CONFIRMED | where Knight has they looked so gay, ever glancing, ever changing. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-glancing-k] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. We fancied that the sea had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and yet ..." - OBSERVED | This page has not seen the manuscript and cannot say which is nearer to it. | research/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/README.md | [no-ms] README: "the manuscript reading of Dorothy's entry (the modern editions that print it, de Selincourt and Woof, are in copyright and were not fetched)" - CONFIRMED | Knight's text as the journal, since the Memoirs prints only extracts; | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [memoirs-extracts] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "A few fragments from her Grasmere Journal were included by the late Bishop of Lincoln in the _Memoirs_ of his uncle, published in 1850." - CONFIRMED | When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-knight-passage] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. We fancied that the sea had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and yet ..." - CONFIRMED | When we were in the woods below Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n199_w1000.jpg | [q-memoirs-passage] image reads "'When we were in the woods below Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. . . As we went along, there were more and yet more; and at last, under the boughs of the trees, we saw there was a long belt of them along the ..." - CONFIRMED | Knight's text of the four Grasmere sections of his volume (from 14 May 1800 to 11 January 1803) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [sections] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "III. DOROTHY WORDSWORTH'S JOURNAL, WRITTEN AT GRASMERE (14TH MAY TO 21ST DECEMBER 1800)" - OBSERVED | with his footnotes, footnote numbers, section headings, three bracketed insertions of his own and the rows of asterisks that mark his omissions taken out | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [distil] distil.mjs removes 63 footnotes, 64 markers, 3 bracketed insertions, 3 headings, 47 asterisk rows; the shipped journal has no "[" left; distil --check passes inside the verifier - OBSERVED | The rest, which this page calls content words, are cut to a stem: lower case; a final 's dropped; 'd read as ed; daffodill read as daffodil; the first of the endings -ing, -ed, -es, -s, -ly removed if at least three letters are left; then a final e removed if at least three letters are left. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [stem-rule] my implementation from the page's printed rule reproduces every count, so the printed rule is the one run - OBSERVED | Windows that reach a score and overlap the one before (sharing at least one word with it) are counted as one place. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [places-rule] 91 windows reaching 10 for 1807 make 3 places - OBSERVED | overlapping windows counted as one place (counted as unbroken runs instead, the 1807 ties are five places, not three) | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [places-choice] the same 91 windows make 5 unbroken runs - OBSERVED | Under that rule the 1807 text shares 11 stems with Knight's passage: daffodils, dancing, waves, lake, trees, along, gay, laughing, saw, floats and little. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-1] 11 shared: along, daffodil, danc, float, gay, lak, laugh, littl, saw, tre, wav - OBSERVED | There are 39,274 other windows of 210 words in Knight's text of the Grasmere Journal, and the best of them shares 10. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-2] 39,274 windows (23,080 before the entry, 16,194 after); best 10 - OBSERVED | The 1815 text shares 15 stems with the passage, and the best other window shares 12. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-3] 15 shared; best other 12 (25 windows, 2 places) - OBSERVED | So the daffodil passage does come first for both, by one stem in 1807 and by three in 1815. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-4] margins 1 and 3 - OBSERVED | Strike those two and the 1807 passage scores 9, level with 91 other windows in 3 separate places. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-5] struck 9; 91 windows at 9, none above, 3 places - OBSERVED | The 1815 passage keeps first place, 13 against 11. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-6] struck 13 against 11 - OBSERVED | the margins are 8 against 7 for 1807 and 12 against 9 for 1815; lower the bar to a fifth, so that saw goes too, and the 1807 passage is level with 30 other windows. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-7] quarter strikes hill, lak, littl, tre: 8 against 7, 12 against 9; fifth adds saw: 7, 30 windows at 7, none above - OBSERVED | little turns up in more than half of them | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-8] littl in 54.3% of the 210-word windows - OBSERVED | The 1849 text gives the same counts as 1815 throughout. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-9] 1849 equals 1815 on every setting I ran (plain, strike two, quarter, fifth, Memoirs, per-line zeros) - OBSERVED | The 1807 text shares 7 stems with it, and 220 of the 39,498 windows of 98 words elsewhere in Knight's text reach 7 or more. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-10] 7 shared; 220 of 39,498 windows reach 7 (54 exceed it) - OBSERVED | The 1815 text shares 10, and 6 windows elsewhere reach 10, all in one place; none passes it. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-11] 10 shared; 6 windows reach 10, one place, none above - OBSERVED | Five of Knight's matches for 1815 (floated, little, lake, waves, bays) come from words the Memoirs does not print. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-12] Knight-only matches for 1815: bay, float, lak, littl, wav - OBSERVED | That window shares 12 stems with the poem, among them lake, waves, vale, hills, cloud, sparkling and twinkle. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-13] that window shares along, cloud, end, eye, hill, lak, littl, sparkl, thought, twinkl, val, wav - OBSERVED | On this count the daffodil passage comes first, but not by much. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-first] see count-1 to count-4 - OBSERVED | Against Knight's passage the 1815 text gains five shared stems the 1807 text did not have, bay, glance, heads, tossing and never | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-14] gained bay, glanc, head, never, toss; lost laugh - OBSERVED | Of the new stanza's 21 content stems, 8 are also in her passage: along, bay, dance, glance, heads, never, saw and tossing. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-15] 21 stems in stanza 2 of 1815; 8 in the passage - OBSERVED | Three of its four content words have a stem in one sentence of hers: | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-16] "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.": tossing, heads, dance in the sentence (tossed, heads, danced); sprightly not - OBSERVED | It can say that all five of the new shared stems are in the stanza he added, and that the gap between the passage and every other stretch of her journal is three stems in the revised text and one in the first. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-17] all five gains are in stanza 2; margins 3 and 1 - OBSERVED | The last stanza begins with five lines that share no stem with her passage at all, in Knight's text or the Memoirs': in 1807 they are lines 13 to 17, and in 1815 lines 19 to 23. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-18] zero lines against Knight 1807: 1, 12-17; 1815: 1, 7, 8, 16, 18-23; against the Memoirs 13-17 and 19-23 also zero - OBSERVED | shares none either, so that is six lines in a row, the longest such run in either printing. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [count-19] runs of 6 (1807 lines 12-17; 1815 lines 18-23) are the longest against Knight's text - CONFIRMED | the cloud floats | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n60_w1000.jpg | [q-floats] image reads "That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills," - CONFIRMED | the sea had floated the seeds ashore | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-floated] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. We fancied that the sea had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and yet ..." - CONFIRMED | the poet little thought | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n60_w1000.jpg | [q-little-p] image reads "but little thought" - CONFIRMED | the daffodils were the little colony | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-little-k] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. We fancied that the sea had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and yet ..." - CONFIRMED | For 1807 the first of the 3 places that reach 10 opens on Sunday, June 1st, 1800, and runs into the next day's walk, where | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [rival-1807] live text, section III (1800): "_Sunday, June 1st._--Rain in the night. A sweet mild morning." then "_Monday._--A cold dry windy morning." My recount: the first window reaching 10 starts at "A sweet mild morning" and ends inside the Monday entry; 1 June 1800 was a Sunday (python datetime) - CONFIRMED | The waves round about the little Island seemed like a dance of spirits that rose out of the water | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-dance-spirits] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "The waves round about the little Island seemed like a dance of spirits that rose out of the water," - CONFIRMED | For 1815 the first of the 2 places that reach 12 is a Thursday in 1802: | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [rival-1815] live text: "_Thursday._--Rydale vale was full of life and motion." in section V ("1ST JANUARY 1802 TO 8TH JULY 1802"), after "_Sunday, 28th February._"; my recount's first window reaching 12 starts at this heading - CONFIRMED | Rydale vale was full of life and motion. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-rydale] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "_Thursday._--Rydale vale was full of life and motion." - CONFIRMED | which matched her laughed | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-laughed] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. We fancied that the sea had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and yet ..." - CONFIRMED | Its last line is Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/page/n389_w1000.jpg | [q-tossing] image reads "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance." - CONFIRMED | They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness; and the rest tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind, that blew upon them over the lake; they looked so gay, ever glancing, ever c ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [q-sentence] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. We fancied that the sea had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and yet ..." - CONFIRMED | Against Knight's text the line before them, What wealth the shew to me had brought: | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n60_w1000.jpg | [q-shew] image reads "What wealth the shew to me had brought:" - CONFIRMED | For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude, And then my heart with pleasure fills, | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n61_w1000.jpg | [q-memory] image reads "For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude, And then my heart with pleasure fills," - CONFIRMED | 1807, vol. II, p. 50 | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n61_w1000.jpg | [p50] image reads "50 For oft when on my couch I lie" - CONFIRMED | Butler had looked at the poem and said a fine morsel this for the Reviewers. | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n200_w1000.jpg | [q-morsel] image reads ""Aye," says he, "a fine morsel this for the Reviewers."" - CONFIRMED | When this was told him, Wordsworth writes, he observed that there were two lines in that little poem which, if thoroughly felt, would annihilate nine-tenths of the reviews of the kingdom, as they would find no readers; the lines I alluded to were these: | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n200_w1000.jpg | [q-two-lines] image reads "I observed that there were two lines in that little poem which, if thoroughly felt, would annihilate nine-tenths of the reviews of the kingdom, as they would find no readers; the lines I alluded to were these:" - CONFIRMED | and he quotes They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n200_w1000.jpg | [q-couplet-w] PARTIAL online (OCR); image n200 (p. 185): "'They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude.'" (italic, footnote 1) - CONFIRMED | Grasmere, Nov. 4 (no year printed) | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft_djvu.txt | [no-year] reads "'Grasmere, Nov. 4. 'My dear Wrangham," - OBSERVED | Here are the links: first the letter, which has no year printed, then the others in order of date. | research/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/README.md | [chain-order] README: the year of the "Grasmere, Nov. 4." letter is printed by neither Grosart nor the Memoirs (confirmed on the live PG 16550 and image n200); the page lists the other links 1815, 1817, 1843, 1851, 1876 and 1896, in that order - CONFIRMED | In the Poems of 1815 an asterisk on They flash upon that inward eye keys a footnote: | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/page/n390_w1000.jpg | [q-1815-21] image reads "*They flash upon that inward eye" - CONFIRMED | The subject of these Stanzas is rather an elementary feeling and simple impression (approaching to the nature of an ocular spectrum) upon the imaginative faculty, than an exertion of it. | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/page/n390_w1000.jpg | [q-note1815] PARTIAL online (OCR "feelmg"); image n390 (p. 329): "* The subject of these Stanzas is rather an elementary feeling and simple impression (approaching to the nature of an ocular spectrum) upon the imaginative faculty, than an exertion of it." - CONFIRMED | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in the second volume of the Biographia Literaria, chapter XXII, lists defects in Wordsworth's poems. | https://archive.org/download/biographialitera03cole/page/n158_w1000.jpg | [bl-where] image n158 (p. 151): "The fourth class of defects is closely connected with the former"; PG 6081 puts the passage in CHAPTER XXII (line 8472; "Fifth and last" at 8979; CHAPTER XXIII at 11223) - CONFIRMED | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in the second volume of the Biographia Literaria | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6081/pg6081.txt | [coleridge-name] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge" - CONFIRMED | The last is Fifth and last; thoughts and images too great for the subject. This is an approximation to what might be called mental bombast, as distinguished from verbal | https://archive.org/download/biographialitera03cole/page/n158_w1000.jpg | [q-bl-fifth] image reads "Fifth and last; thoughts and images too great for the subject. This is an approximation to what might be called mental bombast, as distinguished from verbal" - CONFIRMED | His first instance is the couplet: But if we describe this in such lines, as | https://archive.org/download/biographialitera03cole/page/n159_w1000.jpg | [q-bl-describe] image n159 (p. 152): "But if we describe this in such lines, as"; the couplet is the first instance: the next paragraph begins "The second instance is from Vol. II. page 12," - CONFIRMED | They flash upon that inward eye, Which is the bliss of solitude! | https://archive.org/download/biographialitera03cole/page/n159_w1000.jpg | [q-bl-couplet] PARTIAL online (OCR); image n159 (p. 152): "“ They flash upon that inward eye, Which is the bliss of solitude!”" - CONFIRMED | in what words shall we describe the joy of retrospection, when the images and virtuous actions of a whole well-spent life, pass before that conscience which is indeed the inward eye | https://archive.org/download/biographialitera03cole/page/n159_w1000.jpg | [q-bl-retro] image reads "in what words shall we describe the joy of retrospection, when the images and virtuous actions of a whole well-spent life, pass before that conscience which is indeed the inward eye:" - CONFIRMED | Assuredly we seem to sink most abruptly, not to say burlesquely, and almost as in a medly from this couplet to the poem's last two lines. | https://archive.org/download/biographialitera03cole/page/n159_w1000.jpg | [q-bl-sink] image n159: "Assuredly we seem to sink most abruptly, not to say burlesquely, and almost as in a medly from this couplet to—" followed by "And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils." (the poem's last two lines) - CONFIRMED | The 1817 printing gives the reference as Vol. I. p. 320. | https://archive.org/download/biographialitera03cole/page/n159_w1000.jpg | [q-bl-ref] image reads "And dances with the daffodils." Vol. I. p. 320." - CONFIRMED | the poem is on pages 328 and 329 of the 1815 volume | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/cu31924105330140_djvu.txt | [p328] reads "328 I wandered lonely" - CONFIRMED | and the text in Project Gutenberg reads Vol. I. p. 328. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6081/pg6081.txt | [q-pg6081] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "And dances with the daffodils.” Vol. I. p. 328." - CONFIRMED | His next example begins The second instance is from Vol. II. page 12 | https://archive.org/download/biographialitera03cole/page/n159_w1000.jpg | [q-bl-second] image reads "The second instance is from Vol. II. page 12," - CONFIRMED | The note Wordsworth dictated to Isabella Fenwick, in the manuscript copy Grosart printed: Town-End, 1804. 'The Daffodils.' The two best lines in it are by Mary. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [q-fenwick-mary] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "136. _I wandered lonely as a Cloud_. [XII.] [= 'The Daffodils.'] Town-End, 1804. 'The Daffodils.' The two best lines in it are by Mary." - CONFIRMED | Grosart prints a pencil note from the opposite page: Mrs. Wordsworth--but which? | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [q-pencil] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "[In pencil on opposite page--Mrs. Wordsworth--but which?" - CONFIRMED | His daughter Dora Quillinan, who wrote out about half of that copy, wrote at its end: | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [dora] live text, vol. I preface: "the MS. of Miss FENWICK'S Notes--one half in their father's handwriting, and the other half (or thereabout) in that of Mrs. QUILLINAN ('DORA'), who at the end has written:"; the colophon, signed "D.Q.", says "from my father's dictation", so "His daughter" holds - CONFIRMED | To dearest Miss Fenwick are we obliged for these Notes, every word of which was taken down by her kind pen from my father's dictation. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [q-colophon] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "'To dearest Miss Fenwick are we obliged for these Notes, every word of which was taken down by her kind pen from my father's dictation." - CONFIRMED | The copy was finished on the twenty-fifth day of August 1843. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [q-colophon-date] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "The former portion was transcribed at Rydal by Mr. Quillinan, the latter by me, and finished at the Vicarage, Brigham, this twenty-fifth day of August 1843.--D.Q." - CONFIRMED | in the autobiographical memoranda printed in the Memoirs he writes, In the year 1802 I married Mary Hutchinson | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft_djvu.txt | [q-married] reads "In the year 1802 I married Mary Hutchinson," - CONFIRMED | Christopher Wordsworth's Memoirs of William Wordsworth prints both documents. | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft_djvu.txt | [memoirs-who] reads "BY CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, D.D. CANON OF WESTMINSTER." - CONFIRMED | Under the couplet in the Wrangham letter it puts a footnote: These two lines were written by Mrs. Wordsworth. See below, p. 190. | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n200_w1000.jpg | [q-footnote] image reads "1 These two lines were written by Mrs. Wordsworth. See below, p. 190." - CONFIRMED | On that page is its text of the Fenwick note: The two best lines in it are by M. W. | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n205_w1000.jpg | [q-190] PARTIAL online (OCR); image n205 (p. 190): "I wandered lonely as a Cloud.4—Town-End, 1804. The Daffodils.—‘The two best lines in it are by M. W." - CONFIRMED | On that page is its text of the Fenwick note: | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [memoirs-fenwick] live text: "the I.F. MSS., as written down to the dictation of WORDSWORTH by Miss FENWICK. These have been hitherto given with tantalising and almost provoking fragmentariness in the 'Memoirs'"; the p. 190 wording (image n205) matches the I.F. note - CONFIRMED | The footnote gives no other evidence. | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n200_w1000.jpg | [no-other] image n200: the whole footnote is "These two lines were written by Mrs. Wordsworth. See below, p. 190. The Poem is entitled, 'I wandered lonely as a Cloud' (vol. ii. p. 103), quoted above." - CONFIRMED | Grosart, printing the Wrangham letter, adds These two lines were composed by Mrs. Wordsworth and cites the Memoirs | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [q-grosart-composed] live text, after the letter: "[These two lines were composed by Mrs. Wordsworth: _Memoirs_, i. 183-4.]" - CONFIRMED | Knight's edition of the poems says the same, These two lines were composed by Mrs. Wordsworth. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12383/pg12383.txt | [q-knight1896] live text, after the Wrangham letter: "These two lines were composed by Mrs. Wordsworth." - CONFIRMED | 1876 and 1896 | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12383/pg12383.txt | [knight1896] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "EDITED BY WILLIAM KNIGHT VOL. III 1896" - CONFIRMED | in the Fenwick note, in a copy finished in 1843, he says the two best lines are Mary's | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [copied-1843] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "finished at the Vicarage, Brigham, this twenty-fifth day of August 1843.--D.Q.'" - OBSERVED | So the attribution is not something Wordsworth is recorded saying in any one of the documents fetched for this page. | research/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/README.md | [not-recorded] README: "Beyond the documents listed above, nothing was fetched in which Wordsworth names the two lines and Mary together."; in every fetched document the join is made by an editor (Memoirs footnote, Grosart's bracket, Knight's note), as I read them - OBSERVED | all sit in the stretch of the poem with none of Dorothy's content words. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | [lands] lines 15-16 (1807) and 21-22 (1815) are inside the zero run - CONFIRMED | F. T. Palgrave, The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (Cambridge and London: Macmillan, 1861; the tenth thousand, December 1861), no. CCLIII, p. 254. | https://archive.org/download/palgravegoldentr00palg/page/n269_w1000.jpg | [palgrave-cite] image n269: page number 254, "CCLIII", "THE DAFFODILS"; verso n5: "TENTH THOUSAND: DEC. 1861" - CONFIRMED | S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, vol. II (London: Rest Fenner, 1817), chapter XXII, pp. 151 and 152. | https://archive.org/download/biographialitera03cole/page/n6_w400.jpg | [bl-cite] title page (image n6): "BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA ... By S. T. COLERIDGE, Esq. VOL. II. LONDON: REST FENNER, 23, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1817."; pp. 151 and 152 on images n158, n159 - CONFIRMED | Duke University Libraries copy; public domain. | https://archive.org/metadata/biographialitera03cole/metadata | [lib-bl] catalogue record (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "Duke University Libraries" - CONFIRMED | Christopher Wordsworth, Memoirs of William Wordsworth, vol. I, ed. Henry Reed (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851), pp. 17, 182, 184, 185 and 190. | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n4_w400.jpg | [memoirs-cite] title page (image n4): "BY CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, D.D. ... EDITED BY HENRY REED. VOL. I. BOSTON: TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS. MDCCCLI."; pp. 182, 185, 190 numbered on images n197, n200, n205; n199 (number torn) sits between them as 184; p. 17 in the OCR - CONFIRMED | University of Toronto copy; public domain. | https://archive.org/metadata/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/metadata | [lib-memoirs] catalogue record (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "Robarts - University of Toronto" - CONFIRMED | University of Toronto copy; public domain. | https://archive.org/metadata/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/metadata | [rights-memoirs] catalogue record (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT" - CONFIRMED | (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851) | https://archive.org/metadata/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/metadata | [imprint-memoirs] catalogue record (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "Boston Ticknor, Reed, and Fields" - CONFIRMED | William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works, vol. II, a new and revised edition (London: Edward Moxon, 1849), Poems of the Imagination, no. X, pp. 93 and 94. | https://archive.org/download/poeticalworksrev02worduoft/page/n8_w800.jpg | [1849-cite] title page (image n8): "THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, D.C.L. ... VOL. II. A NEW AND REVISED EDITION. LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. MDCCCXLIX."; "X.", pp. 93 and 94 on images n106, n107 - CONFIRMED | University of Toronto copy; public domain. | https://archive.org/metadata/poeticalworksrev02worduoft/metadata | [lib-1849] catalogue record (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "Robarts - University of Toronto" - CONFIRMED | University of Toronto copy; public domain. | https://archive.org/metadata/poeticalworksrev02worduoft/metadata | [rights-1849] catalogue record (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT" - CONFIRMED | William Wordsworth, Poems, vol. I (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815), Poems of the Imagination, no. XIII, pp. 328 and 329. | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/page/n10_w600.jpg | [1815-cite] title page (image n10): "POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ... VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1815."; "XIII.", pp. 328 and 329 on images n389, n390 - CONFIRMED | Cornell University Library copy: no known copyright restrictions in the United States. | https://archive.org/metadata/cu31924105330140/metadata | [lib-1815] catalogue record (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "Cornell University Library" - CONFIRMED | Cornell University Library copy: no known copyright restrictions in the United States. | https://archive.org/download/cu31924105330140/cu31924105330140_djvu.txt | [rights-1815] reads "There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text." - CONFIRMED | William Wordsworth, Poems, in Two Volumes, vol. II (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807), Moods of my own Mind, no. 7, pp. 49 and 50. | https://archive.org/download/poemsintwovolume00word/page/n6_w600.jpg | [1807-cite] title page (image n6): "POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES, BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ... VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1807."; "7.", pp. 49 and 50 on images n60, n61 - CONFIRMED | Duke University Libraries copy; public domain. | https://archive.org/metadata/poemsintwovolume00word/metadata | [lib-1807] catalogue record (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "Duke University Libraries" - CONFIRMED | (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807) | https://archive.org/metadata/poemsintwovolume00word/metadata | [imprint-1807] catalogue record (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme" - CONFIRMED | Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, ed. William Knight, vol. I (London: Macmillan, 1897), the Grasmere sections and the prefatory note. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | [knight-cite] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "Title: Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2) Author: Dorothy Wordsworth Editor: William Angus Knight" - CONFIRMED | The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, ed. Alexander B. Grosart, vols. I to III (London: Edward Moxon, Son, and Co., 1876): the preface with Dora Quillinan's colophon in vol. I, the letter to Lady Beaumont in vol. II, the I.F. notes and the letter to Wrangham in vol. III. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt | [grosart-cite] live text: "IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. ... LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, SON, AND CO. ... 1876."; the colophon at line 1044 (vol. I), Lady Beaumont at 21004 (vol. II, 14423 to 27689), items 136-137 at 30190-30200 (vol. III, from 27707) - CONFIRMED | The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, first edition 1900; impression of 1931), no. 530. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/66619/pg66619.txt | [qc-cite] live text (fetched 2026-11-02) reads "Chosen & Edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch Oxford At the Clarendon Press" - OBSERVED | the archive.org catalogue records for the libraries named below were fetched on 2026-11-02. | research/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/sources/ia-1807-poems-v2-metadata.txt | [fetched-dates] header lines of the five catalogue records for the named libraries (1807, 1815, 1849, Memoirs, Biographia) read "fetched 2026-11-02"; the Golden Treasury record reads 2026-11-01, and the page names no library for it - CONFIRMED | The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. William Knight, vol. III (1896) and vol. I (the preface naming Isabella Fenwick). | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12383/pg12383.txt | [kpw-cite] live text title "VOL. III" and "1896"; PG 10219 title "VOL. I" and "1896", preface: "the Notes dictated by Wordsworth to Miss Isabella Fenwick" - CONFIRMED | (added) Her journal has other windy days by water. | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42856/pg42856.txt | Monday after 1 June 1800: "A cold dry windy morning ... I sate a long time to watch the hurrying waves"; the 1802 Thursday: "The wind blew briskly, and the lake was covered all over with bright silver waves" - CONFIRMED | (added) Quotations are verbatim; for the scanned books they were read from the page images. | https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n200_w1000.jpg | I read every quotation from the 1807, 1815, 1849, Memoirs, Biographia and Golden Treasury scans on its page image (n60, n61, n389, n390, n106, n107, n197, n199, n200, n205, n158, n159, n269, n5) and every Gutenberg quotation in the live texts: all match, character for character apart from typographic quote marks - CONFIRMED | (added) relates: one stanza of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat across five editions there; Havamal stanzas numbered differently from edition to edition there; shuffled line endings there | src/content/strata/the-stanza-with-no-number.md | all three slugs exist; their deks: "rewritten across five editions"; ""Cattle die, kinsmen die" is Havamal 76 and 77, or 77 and 78 ... depending on whose book you hold"; "His line endings carry no more sound than if you had shuffled them" - OBSERVED | (added) the readouts app.mjs writes at load and on each control: 1807 18 lines/117 words; the 1815 and 1849 change lists; 11 against 10 (91 windows, 3 places); struck 9 level with 91 in 3 places; 13 against 11; quarter 8/7 and 12/9; fifth level with 30; Memoirs 7 (54 above) and 10 (level with 6); the rival captions | recreated: node /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/render.cjs (Playwright, files served by request interception) | every readout agrees with the prose; the rival captions name Sunday, June 1st (section III, 1800) and Thursday (section V, 1802) - OBSERVED | (added) The check: It downloads this page and those four files; With --mutate it plants wrong figures in a copy of the page and must fail. | recreated: AW_DIR=/tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/reader-files node verify-a-host-of-dancing-daffodills.mjs --mutate | FILES lists index.html, engine.mjs, texts.json, grasmere-knight-1897.txt, quotes.json; --mutate exit 1, 591 passed, 9 failed - OBSERVED | (added) plain: by one word at first and three after 1815. Most lines about remembering the flowers share none of hers. | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | margins 1 (1807) and 3 (1815); 5 of the last stanza's 6 lines share no stem with either text of the passage - MINOR | (added) dek: the poem shares more of its content words with that passage than with any other stretch of the same length in his text of her Grasmere Journal; prose: There are 39,274 other windows of 210 words in Knight's text of the Grasmere Journal | recreated: python3 -I /tmp/claude-0/-home-user-Artificial-Wasteland/bb727bf8-61a8-5b0c-9312-348d724897c9/scratchpad/claims/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/scripts/recount.py public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills (my own implementation of the printed rule, not the engine) and the verifier | the shipped journal has 39,947 windows of 210 words; the 39,274 leave out the 672 others that touch the 15 April entry (set aside, as the rule box and The check say); of those, 38 tie the passage for 1807 (11) and 76 for 1815 (15), none exceeds, and every one is the passage itself shifted by 13 to 68 words (one place, by the page's own rule). The claim holds for every stretch outside that entry; as worded it says every other stretch. See finding 2 - MINOR | (added) A respelling is a pair that is the same once case, apostrophes, hyphens and doubled letters are set aside (Daffodills and Daffodils, gaz'd and gazed) | public/strata/a-host-of-dancing-daffodills/engine.mjs | spellKey (engine.mjs:67) also reads 'd as ed, and must: by the rule as printed gaz'd becomes gazd, not gazed, so the page's own example is not a respelling and the "Four words were respelled" count would not follow. The README states the rule with "'d is read as ed". See finding 1 ## Findings - [fixed] MINOR: the diff caption's printed rule did not produce its own example (with the apostrophe merely set aside, gaz'd is gazd, not gazed). Re-read engine.mjs:67: spellKey turns a final 'd into ed before it drops apostrophes, and the verifier's key() does the same; the README already said so. The caption (index.html:142) now reads "A respelling is a pair that is the same once 'd is read as ed and case, apostrophes, hyphens and doubled letters are set aside (Daffodills and Daffodils, gaz'd and gazed); anything else is a changed word." ('d first, in the order the code applies it). The verifier now asserts that sentence, and that gaz'd and gazed (and Daffodills and Daffodils) get one key from the engine's spellKey and from its own key(), while gazd does not. The count "Four words were respelled" is unchanged and still follows. - [fixed] MINOR: "any other stretch" was wider than what was counted. Re-counted with my own scratch script over the shipped grasmere-knight-1897.txt: Knight's 15 April entry has 464 words; 254 other 210-word windows lie wholly inside it; 38 tie the 1807 score of 11 and 76 tie the 1815 score of 15; none exceeds it; every one overlaps the passage (offsets -13 to +25 words for 1807, -13 to +68 for 1815). That matches the pass's 38 and 76 over the 672 windows that touch the entry, so the straddling windows add no ties. The wording now says what was counted: the dek and its four head copies and the frontmatter ("than with any stretch of the same length in his text of her Grasmere Journal outside that day's entry, though only just"); the instrument heading ("Shared words, and every stretch of her journal outside that day's entry"); index.html:201 ("There are 39,274 windows of 210 words in Knight's text of the Grasmere Journal outside that day's entry, and the best of them shares 10."); index.html:209 ("every stretch of her journal outside that day's entry"); the live readout in app.mjs ("Of 39,274 windows of 210 words in Knight's journal outside that day's entry"); the plain ("than with any stretch as long from other days", its first sentence recast to "Three printings from Wordsworth's lifetime show his daffodil poem changing" to stay within 420 characters); the relates note to nothing-waits-at-the-end-of-the-line; and the README. Source-record entries dek-data, count-2 and count-17 carry the new words; the verifier's sentence checks and its --mutate target moved with them. No figure changed. - [fixed] MINOR: the Ullswater quotation did not say which text of the Fenwick note it comes from. Re-read the Memoirs p. 190 on its page image (https://archive.org/download/memoirsofwilliam01worduoft/page/n205_w1000.jpg, fetched 2026-11-02): "The daffodils grew, and still grow, on the margin of Ulls-water," (hyphen at the line break); the live Grosart text (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16550/pg16550.txt, line 30193, fetched 2026-11-02) reads "The daffodils grew and still grow on the margin of Ulswater". index.html:151 now reads "The note Wordsworth dictated to Isabella Fenwick, as the 1851 Memoirs prints it, says the daffodils grew, and still grow, on the margin of Ullswater." Source-record q-ullswater's claim carries the new words; the verifier asserts the sentence and that quotes.json memoirs-ullswater is the Memoirs, vol. I, p. 190. - [fixed] MINOR (fix-check, round 3; the same scope slip as finding 2, in sentences that fix did not reach): index.html:203 said "220 of the 39,498 windows of 98 words elsewhere in Knight's text reach 7 or more" and "6 windows elsewhere reach 10", but the 39,498 are only the 98-word windows before or after Knight's 15 April entry. Re-counted with my own scratch script over the shipped grasmere-knight-1897.txt and texts.json: 23,289 words before the entry and 16,403 after it give 23,192 + 16,306 = 39,498 windows of 98 words, while the whole journal has 40,059, so 561 windows that touch the entry are left out; of those, 30 (1807, at 8 stems) and 27 (1815, at 11) score above the Memoirs passage's 7 and 10, and every one lies wholly inside Knight's own 210-word text of the same passage, which agrees with the fix-checker's recount. The ranking claims hold for what was counted; the wording did not say what was counted. The sentences now read "The 1807 text shares 7 stems with it, and 220 of the 39,498 windows of 98 words in Knight's text outside that day's entry reach 7 or more." and "The 1815 text shares 10, and 6 of those windows reach 10, all in one place; none passes it." Its sibling, the slider label (index.html:165), said "all the journal's 210-word windows", but E.windowShare counts only the windows before and after the entry (gay is in 4.81% of those and 5.26% of all 39,947, so at the 5% setting the two differ); it now reads "at least this share of the journal's 210-word windows outside that day's entry (100% strikes none)", and the chip tooltip in app.mjs says the same. Source-record count-10 and count-11 carry the new words; the verifier's sentence checks moved with them; the README's Memoirs line and the engine.mjs header comment ("anywhere else in her Grasmere Journal") now say "outside that day's entry" too. No figure changed. The claim lines above keep the pass's original words.