[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.