Who, with living flowers
Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet?
Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet?
William Wordsworth
W.
1793.
]
[Footnote Cc: Compare the Stanzas 'Composed in one of the Catholic
Cantons', in the "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent" (1820), which
refer to Einsiedlen. --Ed. ]
[Footnote Dd: Rude fountains built and covered with sheds for the
accommodation of the pilgrims, in their ascent of the mountain. --W. W.
1793. ]
[Footnote Ee: Compare Coleridge's 'Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of
Chamouni':
And you, ye five wild torrents fiercely glad!
. . .
. . .
Who, with living flowers
Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet?
. . .
O struggling with the darkness all the night,
And visited all night by troops of stars,
. . .
The Arve and Arveiron at thy base
Rave ceaselessly;
Compare also Shelley's 'Mont Blanc'. --Ed. ]
[Footnote Ff: See note on Coleridge's 'Hymn before Sun-rise' on previous
page. --Ed. [in Footnote Ff directly above]]
[Footnote Gg: An insect so called, which emits a short, melancholy cry,
heard, at the close of the summer evenings, on the banks of the
Loire. --W. W, 1793. ]
[Footnote Hh: The duties upon many parts of the French rivers were so
exorbitant that the poorer people, deprived of the benefit of water
carriage, were obliged to transport their goods by land. --W.
[Footnote Cc: Compare the Stanzas 'Composed in one of the Catholic
Cantons', in the "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent" (1820), which
refer to Einsiedlen. --Ed. ]
[Footnote Dd: Rude fountains built and covered with sheds for the
accommodation of the pilgrims, in their ascent of the mountain. --W. W.
1793. ]
[Footnote Ee: Compare Coleridge's 'Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of
Chamouni':
And you, ye five wild torrents fiercely glad!
. . .
. . .
Who, with living flowers
Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet?
. . .
O struggling with the darkness all the night,
And visited all night by troops of stars,
. . .
The Arve and Arveiron at thy base
Rave ceaselessly;
Compare also Shelley's 'Mont Blanc'. --Ed. ]
[Footnote Ff: See note on Coleridge's 'Hymn before Sun-rise' on previous
page. --Ed. [in Footnote Ff directly above]]
[Footnote Gg: An insect so called, which emits a short, melancholy cry,
heard, at the close of the summer evenings, on the banks of the
Loire. --W. W, 1793. ]
[Footnote Hh: The duties upon many parts of the French rivers were so
exorbitant that the poorer people, deprived of the benefit of water
carriage, were obliged to transport their goods by land. --W.
