Bare-headed,
We heard the hymn they sang—a solemn sound
Heard any where; but in a place like this
'Tis more than human!
[CA] See the note on the preceding page.—ED.
[CB] Descending from the top of Lingmoor to Blea Tarn.—ED.
[CC] The upper part of Little Langdale, descending to Fell Foot.—ED.
[CD] A spot exactly similar to this can easily be found, about two hundred yards above the house, in the narrow gorge of Blea Tarn Ghyll, below a waterfall, where a "moss-grown wall" still approaches the rock on the other side of the stream, and where a "penthouse" might easily be made by children.—ED.
[CE] It may not be too trivial to note that, to this day, in the Cumberland and Westmoreland vales, one of the favourite games of children on the fell-sides near their cottages, is playing at mimic gardens and parterres, made out of fragments of broken pottery.—ED.
[CF] Compare Lamb's remark in a letter to Wordsworth, 14th August 1814. See Letters of Charles Lamb, edited by Canon Ainger, vol. i. p. 271.—ED.