[Footnote DG: The multiplication of mountain-ridges, described at the commencement of the third Stanza of this Ode, as a kind of Jacob's Ladder, leading to Heaven, is produced either by watery vapours, or sunny haze;--in the present instance by the latter cause. Allusions to the Ode, entitled _Intimations of Immortality_, pervade the last Stanza of the foregoing Poem.--W. W. 1820. The "hazy ridges" referred to in the text are probably those to the west, behind Silver How.--ED.] [Footnote DH: In the lines "Wings at my shoulders seem to play," etc., I am under obligation to the exquisite picture by Mr. Alstone, now in America. It is pleasant to make this public acknowledgment to men of genius, whom I have the honour to rank among my friends.--W. W. 1820. The phrase "men of genius" includes Haydon. The first part of this note of 1820, being one on _Peter Bell_, referring to Haydon's Bible picture of Christ's Entry into Jerusalem. (See note to _Peter Bell_, l. 979.) The American painter was Mr. Washington Allston. Wordsworth sent him a MS. copy of the poem, transcribed "in gratitude for the pleasure he had received from the sight of Mr. Allston's pictures, in particular 'Jacob's Dream,'" and at the end of the MS. of his poem, Wordsworth wrote, "The Author does not know how far he was indebted to Mr. Allston for part of the 3rd stanza. The multiplication of ridges in a mountainous country, as Mr. A. has probably observed, arises from two causes, sunny or watery vapour--the former is here meant. When does Mr. A. return to England?" In a letter on "Wordsworth and Allston," in _The Athenæum_, Mr. J. Dykes Campbell refers to "something in the picture having given definite form to observations of natural phenomena the significance of which the poet had not immediately noted." "Wordsworth," he adds, "was a close and untiring rather than a quick or keen observer, and his mind was at all times stored with a wealth of notes which sometimes had to wait long before they could either be worked out or worked in. Sometimes--as in this instance, perhaps--they were revivified by the suggestions of some kindred observer who happened to anticipate the poet in giving them form."--See _The Athenæum_, August 7, 1894.--ED.] [Footnote DI: Compare the reference in the _Ode, Intimations of Immortality_, ll. 178, 179, to-- Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. ED. ] 1819