Invehitur curru Phrygias turrita per urbes.

The Great Mother is represented in works of art as wearing a crown of towers. An explanation is given in Ovid's Fasti (iv. 219), a work which Wordsworth seems to have had in his thoughts throughout this stanza.

At cur turrifera caput est onerata corona?

An primis turres urbibus illa dedit?"

(W. A. Heard.)

[JD] Compare The Prelude, book vi. 1. 528—

The wondrous Vale

Of Chamouny stretched far below. Ed.


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