Title (Poems [1891])—W. G. Collingwood gave the title “The Source of the Arveron” to this poem, which is untitled in the MS VIII manuscript—or, more precisely, he transferred Ruskinʼs title that heads the prose essay “Source of the Arveron” in MS VIII. Collingwood omitted Ruskinʼs prose sections of the “Account” when compiling his all‐verse version of the work for Poems [1891]. As the editors of the Library Edition perceived, when reuniting the prose and verse, Ruskinʼs title “Source of the Arveron” should almost certainly be understood as a section heading for a composite of prose and poetry. Collingwood was therefore at least partly correct in assigning the title to this poem, which, although separated by many pages from Ruskinʼs earlier‐composed cluster describing the excursion to the source of the Arveyron, clearly bears some relation to that cluster, whether as an extension or a substitution. For further discussion of the titles of prose and poems connected with this cluster, see “I woke to hear the lullaby” and associated glosses.

“forteresse” (MS VIII; Poems [1891]; Works [1903])—French for fortress.

“The battlements all downward driven” (MS VIII; Poems [1891]; Works [1903])—In Poems [1891], W. G. Collingwood substituted “are” for “all”, as the text reads in MS VIII.

“Froze to an icy wilderness” (MS VIII; Poems [1891]; Works [1903])—In Poems [1891], Collingwood substituted “a mighty” for “an icy”, as the text reads in MS VIII.