Pass onward (even the glancing deer
Till we depart intrude not here;)
and The Excursion, book ix. l. 563 (vol. v. p. 373).—Ed.
[DF] Compare Gray's Progress of Poesy, ll. 119, 120—
Such forms, as glitter in the Muse's ray,
With orient hues, unborrow'd of the Sun.
[DG] The multiplication of mountain-ridges, described at the commencement of the third Stanza of this Ode, as a kind of Jacob's Ladder, leading to Heaven, is produced either by watery vapours, or sunny haze;—in the present instance by the latter cause. Allusions to the Ode, entitled Intimations of Immortality, pervade the last Stanza of the foregoing Poem.—W. W. 1820.
The "hazy ridges" referred to in the text are probably those to the west, behind Silver How.—Ed.
[DH] In the lines "Wings at my shoulders seem to play," etc., I am under obligation to the exquisite picture by Mr. Alstone, now in America. It is pleasant to make this public acknowledgment to men of genius, whom I have the honour to rank among my friends.—W. W. 1820.
The phrase "men of genius" includes Haydon. The first part of this note of 1820, being one on Peter Bell, referring to Haydon's Bible picture of Christ's Entry into Jerusalem. (See note to Peter Bell, l. 979.)