Ed.
[602] See The Faërie Queene, book i. canto 2, stanza 43—
Till we be bathed in a living well.
Ed.
[603] This "elfin pool," to which the gold and silver fishes were removed, still exists beneath the pollard oak tree in "Dora's Field," at Rydal Mount. The field is now the property of Mr. Gordon Wordsworth.—Ed.
[604] 1845.
... Well;
That spreads into an elfin pool opaque
Of which close boughs a glimmering mirror make,
On whose smooth breast with dimples light and small 1835.
[605] 1845.
The fly may settle, leaf or blossom fall. 1835.
The fly may settle, or the blossom fall. 1837.
[606] 1845.