[589] Compare Keats, in a letter to his friend Bailey, in 1817: "The great elements we know of are no mean comforters; the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown; the air is our robe of state; the earth is our throne; and the sea a mighty minstrel playing before it."—Ed.
[590] Compare The Excursion, book iv. l. 1163 (vol. v. p. 188)—
... choral song, or burst
Sublime of instrumental harmony,
To glorify the Eternal!—Ed.
[591] See the Fenwick note prefixed to this poem.—Ed.
[592] Genesis i.—Ed.
[593] "And God said, Let there be light, and there was light" (Genesis i. 3).
Ed.
[594] 1 Corinthians xv. 52.—Ed.
[595] Compare Ode, Intimations of Immortality, in stanza ix.—
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal Silence.—Ed.