Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 13-16
And now we reached the orchard-plot;
And, as we climbed the hill,
The sinking moon to Lucy's cot
Came near, and nearer still.
- The speaker and his horse are getting closer to their destination. They come to an orchard and start climbing a hill. (Well, we'd bet that the speaker is making his horse carry him up the hill on its back. It's pretty unlikely that the speaker's walking, and it's even less likely that he's carrying the horse.)
- What goes up must come down, right? That's certainly the case with this poem. As the speaker goes up the hill to his beloved's cottage ("cot" means cottage, not bed here), the moon is making its way down in the sky.
- We get another crucial detail here: the beloved's name is Lucy. (See "In a Nutshell" for more on Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems.)
- We don't get any more detail than her name, though. It looks like we're going to have to keep reading, as our speaker keeps climbing.