The title in 1798 was Lines, written a few miles, etc. In 1815 it assumed its final form.—Ed.
Compare the Fenwick note to the poem Guilt and Sorrow (vol. i. p.78) This visit, five years before, was on his way from "Sarum plain," on foot and alone—after parting with his friend William Calvert—to visit another friend, Robert Jones, in Wales.—Ed.
The river is not affected by the tides a few miles above Tintern.— W. W. 1798.