FOOTNOTES:
[HX] "Nearly 500 years (says Ebel, speaking of the French Invasion) had elapsed, when, for the first time, foreign Soldiers were seen upon the frontiers of this small Canton, to impose upon it the laws of their Governors."—W. W. 1822.
Compare the phraseology of Wordsworth's line with a sentence in Dorothy's Journal, given below.—Ed.
[HY] The Lake of the Four Cantons.—D. W. The Vierwald-stätter See.—Ed.
[HZ] This Journal copied (and the extract added) in 1828.—D. W.
XXI
ON HEARING THE "RANZ DES VACHES" ON THE TOP OF THE PASS OF ST. GOTHARD
I listen—but no faculty of mine
Avails those modulations to detect,