217. Compare this idea with that in the following lines from Wordsworth's "The Daffodils":
"I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought;
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."
The justice of these opinions should be tested by each student from his own experience.
A FABLE FOR CRITICS
36. ignified: melted.
40. An example of Lowell's puns, which are generally critcized as belonging to a low order of humor.
41. Parnassus: a mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and hence the domain of the arts in general.
49. inter nos: between us.
bl. ices. Isis was the Egyptian goddess of the arts and of agriculture.
60. bemummying: a word coined by Lowell to mean causing one to dry up like a mummy.