6. PROPER. Own.
9. SPIRE. Flowering spikes.
10. SPEEDWELL. "The Germander Speedwell is a slender, wiry plant, whose stem sometimes creeps along the surface of the ground before it grows upwards. The flowers have four small petals of the brightest blue, and within the flower at the foot of the petals is a small white circle, with a little white eye looking up. Two stamens with crimson heads rise from this white circle, and in the very centre of the flower there is a tiny green seed-vessel, with a spike coming out of the top."—C. B. Smith.
12. LABURNUMS.
"And all the gold from each laburnum chain
Drops to the grass." —To Mary Boyle.
LXXXVI
"I can open my being also to the reviving influences of Nature—as on a certain evening, balmy and glorious after the rain, when the breeze seemed as if it might breathe new life, and waft me across the seas away from the land of doubt and death to some far off sphere of more than earthly peace,"—Arthur W. Robinson.
1. SWEET AFTER SHOWERS, ETC. This poem was written at Barmouth.
1. AMBROSIAL. Ambrosia was the food of the immortal gods. The wind was from the west and was "divinely reviving."
4. BREATHING BARE. Making the horizon bare of clouds.