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[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.