The light that never was, on sea or land. ED. ] [Footnote AB: Compare _Resolution and Independence_, stanza xiv. (vol. ii. p. 319)-- Such as grave Livers do in Scotland use, Religious men, who give to God and man their dues. ED. ] [Footnote AC: Compare Byron, _Childe Harold_, canto iv. stanza clxxxiv.-- From a boy I wantoned with thy breakers--they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror,--'twas a pleasing fear. ED. ] [Footnote AD: Compare _Ode, Intimations of Immortality_, stanza ix. (vol. viii.)-- those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, etc. and _The Prelude_, book ii. l. 350 (vol. iii. p. 164)-- what I saw Appeared like something in myself, a dream, A prospect in the mind. ED. ] [Footnote AE: Compare Milton, _Il Penseroso_, l. 109-- Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold. ED. ] [Footnote AF: Compare _Lines Written in Early Spring_ (vol. i. p. 269)-- And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. ED. ] [Footnote AG: Compare _The Prelude_, book ii. l. 411 (vol. iii. p. 166)-- Communing ... With every form of creature, as it looked Towards the Uncreated with a countenance Of adoration, with an eye of love. ED. ] [Footnote AH: Compare book iv. ll. 111-14; also in Robert Browning's _Old Pictures in Florence_, stanza i.-- And washed by the morning water-gold, Florence lay out on the mountain-side. ED. ] [Footnote AI: The sea is not visible from the hills of Athole, except from the summit of Ben y' Gloe, where it can be seen to the south-east in the clearest weather. Wordsworth did not care for local accuracy in this passage. It was quite unnecessary for his purpose. Compare his account of the morning walk near Hawkshead in _The Prelude_, and see the Appendix-note to book iv. l. 338 (vol. iii. p. 389).--ED.] [Footnote AJ: Compare _Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey_ (vol. ii. p. 54), in which Wordsworth speaks of the rock, the mountain, and the wood, their colours and their forms, as an appetite, a feeling, and a love-- That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. ED. ] [Footnote AK: Compare the line in the sonnet on Milton (vol. ii. p. 346)-- Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart. ED. ]