The joy of seeing the Saviour was _stolen_ because they gained it in the absence of the sun! [141] A trisyllable.
[142] His garland.
[143] The "sunny seed" in their hearts.
[144] From _tine_ or _tind_, to set on fire.

Hence _tinder_.
[145] The body of Jesus.
[146] Mark i.

35; Luke xxi.37.The word _time_ must be associated both with _progress_ and _prayer_--his walking-time and prayer-time.
[147] This is an allusion to the sphere-music: the great heavens is a clock whose hours are those when Jesus retires to his Father; and to these hours the sphere-music gives the chime.
[148] He continues his poetic synonyms for the night.
[149] "Behold I stand at the door and knock." [150] A monosyllable.
[151] Often used for _chambers_.
[152] "The creation looks for the light, thy shadow ?" Or, "The light looks for thy shadow, the sun"?
[153] _Perforce_: of necessity.
[154] He does not mean his fellows, but his bodily nature.
[155] _Savourest ?_ [156] The first I ever saw of its hymns was on a broad-sheet of Christmas Carols, with coloured pictures, printed in Seven Dials.
[157] They passed through twenty editions, not to mention one lately published (_by Daniel Sedgwick, of 81, Sun-street, Bishopsgate, a man who, concerning hymns and their writers, knows more than any other man I have met_), from which, carefully edited, I have gathered all my _information_, although I had known the book itself for many years.
[158] The animal _spirits_ of the old physiologists.
[159] In the following five lines I have adopted the reading of the first edition, which, although a little florid, I prefer to the scanty two lines of the later.
[160] False in feeling, nor like God at all, although a ready pagan representation of him.

There is much of the pagan left in many Christians--poets too.
[161] _Insisting--persistent_.
[162] Great cloudy ridges, one rising above the other, like a grand stair up to the heavens.

_See Wordsworth's note_.
[163] The mountain.
[164] These two lines are just the symbol for the life of their author.
[165] From the rose-light on the snow of its peak.
[166] They all flow from under the glaciers, fed by their constant melting.
[167] Turning for contrast to the glaciers, which he apostrophizes in the next line.
[168] Antecedent, _peaks_.
[Transcriber's Note: In this electronic edition, the footnotes have been numbered and relocated to the end of the work.