"publish yourselves"--to show or to expose.
"offer yourselves"--the sea overruns the marsh.
"Tolerant plains"--generous, broad, liberal.
"mightily won God out of Knowledge"--won thro' kindness and love, and broad-mindedness.
"good out of infinite pain"--was helped by suffering to become noble and true.
"build me a nest on the greatness of God"--to establish himself on the principles of the great Power.
"lay me a-hold on the greatness of God"--to lay hold of this Heavenly beauty and goodness and greatness.
"liberal marshes"--great, broad. Thro' these he learned the beauty of greatness and of broad-mindedness in man, and from that to the greatness of God was but a natural step.
"sea lends large"--sends its waters out in tides over the marsh country twice a day.
"grace of the sea"--the generous waters of the sea.