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The multiplication of mountain-ridges, described at the commencement of the third Stanza of this Ode, as a kind of Jacob’s Ladder, leading to Heaven, is produced either by watery vapours, or sunny haze;–in the present instance by the latter cause. Allusions to the Ode, entitled “Intimations of Immortality,” pervade the last stanza of the foregoing Poem.