l. [158]. brede, embroidery. Cf. Ode on a Grecian Urn, [v. 1].
[Page 13]. l. [178] rack. Cf. The Tempest, iv. i. 156, 'leave not a rack behind.' Hyperion, i. 302, [note].
l. [180]. This gives us a feeling of weakness and weariness as well as measuring the distance.
[Page 14]. l. [184]. Cf. Wordsworth:
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
ll. [191-200]. Cf. [Ode on Melancholy], where Keats tells us that melancholy lives with Beauty, joy, pleasure, and delight. Lamia can separate the elements and give beauty and pleasure unalloyed.
l. [195]. Intrigue with the specious chaos, enter on an understanding with the fair-looking confusion of joy and pain.
l. [198]. unshent, unreproached.
[Page 15]. l. [207]. Nereids, sea-nymphs.
l. [208]. Thetis, one of the sea deities.