The first three lines of Wordsworth’s “Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe.”
Wordsworth began this poem during the tour of Scotland he took with his sister, Dorothy,
in 1803, but it wasn’t published until the 1827 version of his Poetical Works.

Milton, Paradise Lost, VIII.504.

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v, stanzas 39 and 40.

Holy of holies.

The ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.

More commonly known as Derwent Isle, this island’s alternate name can be traced to
the era when, prior to the sixteenth-century dissolution of the monasteries, it was
owned by the monks of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire.