ne of his nature. there! there!: I've come out
plainly with the fact.

8.

"How the light, light love, he has wings to fly
At suspicion of a bond:
My wisdom has bidden your pleasure good-bye,
Which will turn up next in a laughing eye,
And why should you look beyond?"

--
St. 8. bond: refers to what is said in St. 7;
why should you look beyond?: i.e., beyond a laughing eye,
which does not "watch" and "wait", and thus "weary" and "wear".

V. On the Cliff.

1.

I leaned on the turf,
I looked at a rock
Left dry by the surf;
For the turf, to call it grass were to mock:
Dead to the roots, so deep was done
The work of the summer sun.

2.

And the rock lay flat
As an anvil's face:
No iron like that!
Baked dry; of a weed, of a shell, no trace:
Sunshine outside, but ice at the core,
Death's altar by the lone shore.

3.

On the turf, sprang gay
With his films of blue,
No cricket, I'll say,
But a warhorse, barded and chanfroned too,
The gift of a quixote-mage to his knight,
Real fairy, with wings all right.

--
St. 3. No cricket, I'll say: but to my lively admiration,
a warhorse, barded and chanfroned too: see Webster's Dict.,
s.v. "chamfrain". {also chamfron: armor for a horse's head}.

4.

On the rock, they scorch
Like a drop of fire
From a brandished torch,
Fall two red fans of a butterfly:
No turf, no rock,--in their ugly stead,
See, wonderful blue and red!

--
St. 4. they: i.e., the `two red fans'.
no turf, no rock: i.e., the eye is taken up entirely with cricket
and butterfly; blue and red refer respectively to cricket and butterfly.

5.

Is it not so
With the minds of men?
The level and low,
The burnt and bare, in themselves; but then
With such a blue and red grace, not theirs,
Love settling unawares!

--
St. 5. Love: settling on the minds of men, the level and low,
the burnt and bare, is compared to the cricket and the butterfly
settling on the turf and the rock.

VI. Reading a Book under the Cliff.

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* In the original ed., 1864, the heading to this section
was `Under the Cliff'; changed in ed. of 1868.
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1.

"Still ailing, Wind? Wilt be appeased or no?
Which needs the othe