’Dear native regions, I foretell,
  From what I feel at this farewell,
  That, wheresoe’er my steps may tend,
  And whensoe’er my course shall end,
  If in that hour a single tie
  Survive of local sympathy,
  My soul will cast the backward view,
  The longing look alone on you.

  Thus, while the Sun sinks down to rest
  Far in the regions of the west,
  Though to the vale no parting beam
  Be given, not one memorial gleam,
  A lingering light he fondly throws
  On the dear hills where first he rose.’

The Fenwick note to this poem is as follows: 

“The beautiful image with which this poem concludes suggested itself to me while I was resting in a boat along with my companions under the shade of a magnificent row of sycamores, which then extended their branches from the shore of the promontory upon with stands the ancient, and at that time the more picturesque, Hall of Coniston.”

There is nothing in either poem definitely to connect “Thurstonmere” with Coniston, although their identity is suggested by the Fenwick note.  I find, however, that Thurston was the ancient name of Coniston; and this carries us back to the time of the worship of Thor. (See Lewis’s ‘Topographical Dictionary of England’, vol. i. p. 662; also the ‘Edinburgh Gazetteer’ (1822), articles “Thurston” and “Coniston.”) The site of the grove “on the shore of the promontory” at Coniston Lake is easily identified, but the grove itself is gone.—­Ed.]

[Footnote n:  Compare book iii. ll. 30 and 321-26; also book vi, ll. 25 and 95, both text and notes.—­Ed.]

[Footnote o:  Probably in 1788.  Compare book vii. ll. 61-68, and note [Footnote K].—­Ed.]

[Footnote p:  A stalactite cave, in a mountain in the south coast of the island of Antiparos, which is one of the Cyclades.  It is six miles from Paros, was famous in ancient times, and was rediscovered in 1673.—­Ed.]

[Footnote q:  There is a cave, called Yordas Cave, four and a half miles from Ingleton in Lonsdale, Yorkshire.  It is a limestone cavern, rich in stalactites, like the grotto of Antiparos; and is at the foot of the slopes of Gragreth, formerly called Greg-roof.  It gets its name from a traditional giant ‘Yordas’; some of its recesses being called “Yordas’ bed-chamber,” “Yordas’ oven,” etc.  See Allen’s ‘County of York’, iii. p. 359; also Bigland’s “Yorkshire” in ‘The Beauties of England and Wales’, vol. xvi. p. 735, and Murray’s ‘Handbook for Yorkshire’, p. 392.—­Ed.]

[Footnote r:  From Milton, ‘Paradise Lost’, book xi. 1. 204: 

  ’Why in the East
  Darkness ere day’s mid-course, and Morning light
  More orient in yon Western Cloud, that draws
  O’er the blue Firmament a radiant white,
  And slow descends, with something heav’nly fraught?’

Ed.]

[Footnote s:  See ‘L’Allegro’, l. 118.—­Ed.]

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