These could be seen from the window of one of the rooms of Dove Cottage.

Seated beside the hearth of the "half-kitchen and half-parlour fire" in that cottage, and looking along the passage through the low door, the eye would rest on Hammar Scar, the wooded hill behind Allan Bank.

The context of the poem points to Hawkshead; but the details of the description suggest the Grasmere cottage rather than Anne Tyson's .-- Ed.] [Footnote g: See the distinction drawn by Wordsworth between Fancy and Imagination in the Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" (1800 and subsequent editions), and embodied in his classification of the Poems .-- Ed.] [Footnote h: Westmoreland .-- Ed.] [Footnote i: See note [Footnote a], book ii.l.

451 .-- Ed.] [Footnote k: Coniston lake; see note [Footnote m below] on the following page .-- Ed.] [Footnote m: The eight lines which follow are a recast, in the blank verse of 'The Prelude', of the youthful lines entitled 'Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in Anticipation of leaving School'.

These were composed in Wordsworth's sixteenth year.