Note GU — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 (continued 3)
Reading edition
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 ED. Of mountains, silent, dreary, motionless, etc.