Note KI — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 (continued 4)
Reading edition
A reminiscence of St. Bees, or of days spent on the Cumbrian coast. Compare the two sonnets (1806), With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh, and Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go? (vol. iv. pp. 40, 41).—ED.