That means things which come between. He explained that to me. I cannot always make out what is said till it is explained; but when it is, then the full truth and loveliness rises and shines into me like the moon when it has got over the hills and the woods.”
“Go on.”
“‘A faculty abides,
That with interpositions, which would hide
And darken, so can deal that they become
Contingencies of pomp, and serve to exalt
Her native brightness.’
I did not understand what contingencies meant, but he told me, and now all is quite plain as it is quite true. And it goes on—
‘As the ample moon
Rising behind a thick and lofty grove,