Ed.
[250] The fifty-three small islands in the Ægean surrounding Delos, as with a circle (κύκλος)—hence the name.—Ed.
[251] Compare Coleridge’s Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni—
Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds!
Ed.
[252] Sol = Phoebus = Apollo.—Ed.
AIREY-FORCE VALLEY
Published 1842
First published (1842) in “Poems, chiefly of Early and Late Years.” Afterwards one of the “Poems of the Imagination.”—Ed.