12. Look up Matthew 13: 3-9.
18. Condensed expression; for some of that seed shall surely fall in such ground that it shall bloom forever.
THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS
16. viceroy: ruler in place of the king.
44. Apollo, while he was still young, killed one of the Cyclops of Zeus and Zeus condemned him to serve a mortal Man as a shepherd. He served Admetus, as is here described, and secured many special favors for him from the gods.
COMMEMORATION ODE
3. The men who fought for the cause they loved expressed their love in the forming of a squadron instead of a poem, and wrote their praise of battle in fighting-lines instead of tetrameters.
17. guerdon: reward.
36. A creed without defenders is lifeless. When to belief in a cause is added action in its behalf, the creed lives.
60. This is as life would be without live creeds and results that will endure. Compare Whittier's "Raphael."