Whose home is in the breast!


FOOTNOTES:

[CM] Probably one of the bays in Rydal Mere.—Ed.

[CN] The kingfisher.—Ed.

[CO] Probably on Nab Scar reflected in Rydal water.—Ed.

[CP] Compare The Prelude, book vi. l. 173—

Moods melancholy, . . . that loved

The twilight more than dawn, autumn than spring.

[CQ] Lycoris was the name under which the poet Gallus wrote of his Cytheris, a freed woman of the senator Volumnius, celebrated for her beauty and intrigues. See Virgil's reference to her in Eclogue x. 42, in which he condoles with his friend Gallus for the loss of Lycoris—