[Page 157]. ll. [205-8]. Cf. the opening of the gates of heaven. Paradise Lost, vii. 205-7.
ll. [213 seq.] See Introduction, p. [248].
[Page 158]. l. [228]. effigies, visions.
l. [230]. O . . . pools. A picture of inimitable chilly horror.
l. [238]. fanes. Cf. Psyche, l. [50].
[Page 159]. l. [246]. Tellus . . . robes, the earth mantled by the salt sea.
[Page 160]. ll. [274-7]. colure. One of two great circles supposed to intersect at right angles at the poles. The nadir is the lowest point in the heavens and the zenith is the highest.
[Page 161]. ll. [279-80]. with labouring . . . centuries. By studying the sky for many hundreds of years wise men found there signs and symbols which they read and interpreted.
[Page 162]. l. [298]. demesnes. Cf. Lamia, ii. 155, note.
ll. [302-4]. all along . . . faint. As in l. [286], the god and the sunrise are indistinguishable to Keats. We see them both, and both in one. See Introduction, p. [248].