Trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home. ED.] [Footnote DZ: Compare book i. l. 200.--ED.] [Footnote EA: Compare book i. ll. 215-16.--ED.] [Footnote EB: Compare _Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey_, ll. 83-85 (vol. ii. p. 54)-- That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. ED. ] [Footnote EC: See Matthew Sylvester's _Reliquiæ Baxterianæ_, _or the Life of Richard Baxter_, book i. part i. l. 213, p. 32: "To despise earth is easy to me; but not so easy to be acquainted and conversant in Heaven. I have nothing in this world which I could not easily let go: but to get satisfying apprehension of the other world is the great and grievous difficulty." See also Wordsworth's note, p. 387.--ED.] [Footnote ED: See Wordsworth's note, p. 387.--ED.] [Footnote EE: Compare Milton's _Ode on the Nativity_, l. 119.--ED.] [Footnote EF: St. Matt. xi. 19.--ED.] [Footnote EG: See Wordsworth's note, p. 387.--ED.] [Footnote EH: Samuel Daniel; from his poem, _To the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland_. In his note Wordsworth says, "The two last lines printed in italics, are by him" (_i.e._ Daniel) "translated from Seneca." The passage is: "O quam contempta res est homo, nisi supra humana surrexerit" (_Natur. quaest._ lib. i. praef. 4). The discovery of this passage cost the late Bishop of St. Andrews several long days' hunting through Seneca's works. He wrote me afterwards: "The passage has nothing to do with moral elevation, the next words are 'quam diu cum affectibus colluctamur quid magnifici facimus.'" The following occurs in _The Soul's Conflict_, by Richard Sibbes (1635), ch. ix.--"We see likewise hence a necessity of having something in the soul above itself. It must be partaker of a diviner nature than itself; otherwise, when the most refined part of our souls, the very spirit of our minds, is out of frame, what shall bring it in again?" See also the extract from Bacon's Essay, XVI., prefixed to _The White Doe of Rylstone_ (vol. iv. p. 105).--ED.] [Footnote EI: The fact of the eagle having once haunted the Cumbrian and Westmoreland valleys is proved by the number of rocks, crags, etc., that are named from it.--ED.] [Footnote EJ: The following occurs in the Fenwick note to the lines addressed _To Joanna_ in the "Poems on the naming of Places" (vol. ii. p. 157): "The effect of the reverberation of voices in some parts of the mountains is very striking. There is, in _The Excursion_, an allusion to the bleat of a lamb thus re-echoed, and described without any exaggeration, as I heard it, on the side of Stickle Tarn, from the precipice that stretches on to Langdale Pikes." The "precipice" referred to is Pavy Ark.--ED.] [Footnote EK: There are many ant-hills in this district of Westmoreland. Note that the description here is of the effect of a lake seen from above, looking down on it.--ED.]