The song of mountain-streams, unheard by day,
Now hardly heard, beguiles my homeward way.
Also The Excursion (book iv. ll. 1173, 1174)—
The little rills, and waters numberless,
Inaudible by daylight.
And Wordsworth's sonnet beginning—
The unremitting voice of nightly streams
That wastes so oft, we think, its tuneful powers.
Compare also in Gray's Tour in the Lakes, "At distance, heard the murmur of many waterfalls, not audible in the daytime."—Ed.
[KK] Compare Milton's Sonnet on his Blindness, l. 14—
They also serve who only stand and wait.Ed.
[LL] In the limestone ridges and hills of the Craven district of Yorkshire there are many caverns and underground recesses, such as the Yordas cave referred to in The Prelude (vol. iii. p. 289).—Ed.
[MM] The Towers of Barnard Castle on the Tees in Yorkshire.—Ed.