Note 403 — 1824
Reading edition
Compare The White Doe of Rylstone, canto i. ll. 118, 119 (vol. iv. p. 110)—
Nature, softening and concealing, And busy with a hand of healing.
This was doubtless Carnarvon Castle, which Wordsworth visited in September 1824, at the close of his three weeks' ramble in North Wales, of which he wrote to Sir George Beaumont, "We employed several hours in exploring the interior of the noble castle, and looking at it from different points of view in the neighbourhood."—Ed.