[P. 193.] the judge’s robe. Cf. “Measure for Measure,” ii, 2, 59;
“No ceremony that to great ones ’longs,
Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe.”
Pindar and Alcæus. Greek lyric poets.
a sense of joy. Wordsworth’s “To My Sister.”
[P. 194.] Beneath the hills. Cf. Wordsworth’s “Excursion,” VI, 531:
“Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills
The generations are prepared....”
[P. 195.] To him the meanest flower. “Ode on the Intimations of Immortality.”
[P. 196.] Grasmere was the residence of Wordsworth between 1799 and 1813.
Cole-Orton was the residence of Wordsworth’s friend, Sir George Beaumont, to whom he dedicated the 1815 edition of his poems: “Some of the best pieces were composed under the shade of your own groves, upon the classic ground of Cole-Orton.”
[P. 197.] Calm contemplation. Cf. “Laodamia”: “Calm pleasures there abide, majestic pains.”