England's Antiphon Part 45

[151] Often used for _chambers_.

[152] "The creation looks for the light, thy shadow?" Or, "The light looks for thy shadow, the sun"?

[153] _Perforce_: of necessity.

[154] He does not mean his fellows, but his bodily nature.

[155] _Savourest?_

[156] The first I ever saw of its hymns was on a broad-sheet of Christmas Carols, with coloured pictures, printed in Seven Dials.

[157] They pa.s.sed through twenty editions, not to mention one lately published (_by Daniel Sedgwick, of 81, Sun-street, Bishopsgate, a man who, concerning hymns and their writers, knows more than any other man I have met_), from which, carefully edited, I have gathered all my _information_, although I had known the book itself for many years.

[158] The animal _spirits_ of the old physiologists.

[159] In the following five lines I have adopted the reading of the first edition, which, although a little florid, I prefer to the scanty two lines of the later.

[160] False in feeling, nor like G.o.d at all, although a ready pagan representation of him. There is much of the pagan left in many Christians--poets too.

[161] _Insisting--persistent_.

[162] Great cloudy ridges, one rising above the other, like a grand stair up to the heavens. _See Wordsworth's note_.

[163] The mountain.

[164] These two lines are just the symbol for the life of their author.

[165] From the rose-light on the snow of its peak.

[166] They all flow from under the glaciers, fed by their constant melting.

[167] Turning for contrast to the glaciers, which he apostrophizes in the next line.

[168] Antecedent, _peaks_.