[57. ]Hurst. Cumner (or Cumnor) Hurst, one of the Cumnor range of hills, some two or three miles south and west of Oxford, is crowned with a clump of cedars; hence the name "Hurst."
[58.] Berkshire moors. Berkshire is the county, or shire, on the south of Oxford County.
[69.] green-muffled. Explain the epithet.
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[74.] Bablockhithe. A small town some four miles west and a little south of Oxford, on the Thames, which at that point is a mere stream crossed by a ferry. This and numerous other points of interest in the vicinity of Oxford are frequented by Oxford students; hence Arnold's familiarity with them and his reference to them in this poem and Thyrsis. See any atlas.
[79.] Wychwood bowers. That is, Wychwood Forest, ten or twelve miles north and west of Oxford. See note, l. 74.
[83.] To dance around the Fyfield elm in May. Fyfield, a parish in Berkshire, about six miles southwest of Oxford. The reference here is to the "May-day" celebrations formerly widely observed in Europe, but now nearly disappeared. The chief features of the celebration in Great Britain are the gathering of hawthorn blossoms and other flowers, the crowning of the May-queen and dancing around the May-pole—here the Fyfield elm. See note, l. 74. Read Tennyson's poem, The Queen o' the May.
[91.] Godstow Bridge. Some two miles up the Thames from Oxford.
[95.] lasher pass. An English term corresponding to our mill race. The lasher is the dam, or weir.
[98.] outlandish. Analyze the word and determine meaning.