coming in at the eyes that makes things seen.

[135] The action by which a body attacked collects force by opposition.

[136] Cut roughly through.

[137] Intransitively used. They touch each other.

[138] Self-desire, which is death's pit, &c.

[139] _Which_ understood.

[140] How unpleasant conceit can become. The joy of seeing the Saviour
was _stolen_ because they gained it in the absence of the sun!

[141] A trisyllable.

[142] His garland.

[143] The "sunny seed" in their hearts.

[144] From _tine_ or _tind_, to set on fire. Hence _tinder_.

[145] The body of Jesus.

[146] Mark i. 35; Luke xxi. 37. The word _time_ must be associated both
with _progress_ and _prayer_--his walking-time and prayer-time.

[147] This is an allusion to the sphere-music: the great heavens is a
clock whose hours are those when Jesus retires to his Father; and to
these hours the sphere-music gives the chime.

[148] He continues his poetic synonyms for the night.

[149] "Behold I stand at the door and knock."

[150] A monosyllable.

[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 passed 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 God 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.