[Footnote GQ: Possibly at Dale End, Grasmere.--ED.] [Footnote GR: Probably the Wyke, Sarah Mackereth's Cottage.--ED.] [Footnote GS: See Wordsworth's note, p. 388.--ED.] [Footnote GT: Silver How is the only "dark mountain" visible to the west from the moss-grown seat in the Grasmere Churchyard; but here again the realism of the narrative gives way, and not Silver How but Lingmoor is described, with Hackett Cottage at its south-eastern foot. The Fenwick note is here explicit. "First for the one picture given by the Wanderer of the living. In this nothing is introduced but what was taken from nature and real life. The cottage was called Hackett, and stands, as described, on the southern extremity of the ridge which separates the two Langdales. The pair who inhabited it were called Jonathan and Betty Yewdale." Later on, in book vi. p. 250, Wordsworth describes the blue roofs of Hawkshead village as ornamenting a distant reach _Of this far-winding vale_. Unless, therefore, he is speaking in the vague, Hackett and not Grasmere is the place described. The Fenwick note to the _Epistle to Sir George Beaumont_, however, decides the question (see vol. iv. p. 256). "The house (Hackett) and its inmates are referred to in the fifth book of _The Excursion_, in the passage beginning-- You behold, High on the breast of yon dark mountain, dark." ED. ] [Footnote GU: Compare the Sonnet (of 1815) referring to Allan Bank, beginning-- Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress Of a bedimming sleep, or as a lamp Suddenly glaring through sepulchral damp, So burns yon Taper 'mid a black recess Of mountains, silent, dreary, motionless, etc. ED. ] [Footnote GV: Compare the Sonnet (of 1815) beginning-- The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade, and more especially the Fenwick note, prefixed to that sonnet.--ED.] [Footnote GW: This feminine complexion of the Cumbrian peasants who work in the higher mines, is probably in part due to the continual mists and moisture of the heights. It has been observed especially amongst the workers in the high slate quarries at Walna Scar.--ED.] [Footnote GX: In a note to the edition of 1814, Wordsworth added to the above quotation _Southey's Retrospect_. See p. 388 of this volume.] [Footnote GY: In 1814 Wordsworth added to this line a prefatory note to his _Essay upon Epitaphs_, and the _Essay_ itself, for which see _The Prose Works_.] [Footnote GZ: On the 1st of August 1849, during the last year of the poet's life, he transcribed the five lines beginning-- Life, I repeat, is energy of love on a presentation copy of his works, sent to Thomas Gough. It was one of the last things he ever wrote.--ED.] Book Sixth THE CHURCH-YARD AMONG THE MOUNTAINS ARGUMENT