book iv

. ll. 111-14; also in Robert Browning's _Old Pictures in Florence_, stanza i.--

And washed by the morning water-gold, Florence lay out on the mountain-side. ED. ]

[Footnote AI: The sea is not visible from the hills of Athole, except from the summit of Ben y' Gloe, where it can be seen to the south-east in the clearest weather. Wordsworth did not care for local accuracy in this passage. It was quite unnecessary for his purpose. Compare his account of the morning walk near Hawkshead in _The Prelude_, and see the Appendix-note to