1. blade and sheaf. Spring and Autumn, seed time and harvest.
3. Here. In the Sleeping Palace, in contrast with the outside world.
9. range. Rows.
10. terrace-lawn. The sloping lawn built up in the form of terraces.
11-2. The fountain is not flowing, but the water has withdrawn, or drawn back, to the garden lake from which it used to flow.
13. droops. The predicate also for the fires, peacock and parrot.
15. laurel bower. His retreat among the laurel bushes (evergreens).
16. wires. Cage.
18. these, those. Both the eggs and the birds.
22-3. The real things in and around the Sleeping Palace seem more like a picture than even the portraits on the walls.