[_Ibid._ IV.l.

20.] 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.
XVII.

POEMS COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING A TOUR IN THE SUMMER OF 1833.
388.

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