22–28 May 1837

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but ifyou cannot, mind yourown business. Then instantly you are comforted. Then instantly the evil begins to be repaired.

" My dear sir, clear your mind of cant," said Dr. Johnson. Wordsworth, whom I read last night, is garrulous and weak often, but quite free from cant. I think I could easily make a small selection from his volumes which should con- tain all their poetry. It would take Fidelity, Tintern Abbey, Cumberland Beggar, Ode to Duty, September, The Force of Prayer, Lyco- ris. Lines on the Death of Fox, Dion, Happy Warrior, Laodamia, the Ode.