Note BU — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814
Reading edition
The head of Little Langdale, with Blea Tarn in the centre, as seen from the top of Lingmoor, the only point, except the summit of Blake Rigg, from which it appears "urn-like."
With the six previous lines compare Beattie's Minstrel, book ii. stanza vi.—
It was his chance to wander far abroad, And o'er a lonely eminence to climb, Which, heretofore, his foot had never trode; ED. A vale appeared below, a deep retired abode.