poison Tree
... ‘One evening (surely I was lead by her) I went alone into a Shepard’s boat, a skiff that to a willow tree was tied’. ... He is referring to a small rowing boat, which is attached to a tree just near the lake. ... ‘A rocky steep up rose above the cavern of the willow tree’. Slowly he began to loose sight of the willow tree and the mountains begun to rise upon him. When he came to a certain point were he could no longer see the willow tree there were ‘nothing but the stars and the grey sky’.