'The buzzing Dor-hawk round and round is wheeling' (c. i. l. 3).
When the Poem was first written the note of the bird was thus described:—
'The Night-hawk is singing his frog-like tune,
Twirling his watchman's rattle about'—
but from unwillingness to startle the reader at the outset by so bold a mode of expression, the passage was altered as it now stands.
125. Helmcrag (c. i. l. 168).
A mountain of Grasmere, the broken summit of which presents two figures, full as distinctly shaped as that of the famous Cobbler near Arroquhar in Scotland.
126. Merrynight (c. ii. l. 30).
A term well known in the North of England, and applied to rural festivals where young persons meet in the evening for the purpose of dancing.
'The fiddles squeak—that call to bliss' (c. ii. l. 97).
At the close of each strathspey, or jig, a particular note from the fiddle summons the Rustic to the agreeable duty of saluting his partner.