Note CV — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 (continued 2)
Reading edition
—Voiceless the stream descends ... With timid lapse ...
is a perfect description of this tiniest and gentlest of rills, flowing through the meadow-grass; while the "chasm of sky above," of which the Wanderer speaks, though an obvious exaggeration, is more appropriate to this spot than to any other in the vale.—ED.