Of their souls, and resolved with a vow
No custom to change,
For a new, or a strange,
Have attained unto Paradise, _now_. 102

Line 9. PELTED, said of _hail_, not rain. Felt by nakedness, in
a more severe manner than mere rain.

11. 'WEATHERS,' _i.e., both_ weathers--hail and cold: the _armor_
of the feathers against hail; the down of them against cold. See
account of Feather-mail in 'Laws of Fesole,' chap, vi., p. 53,
with the first and fifth plates, and figure 15.

15. BLIND. By the beating of the rain in his face. In _hail_,
there is real danger and bruising, if the hail be worth calling
so, for the whole body; while in rain, if _it_ be rain also worth
calling rain, the great plague is the beating and drenching in
the face.

16. SWUNG. Opposed to 'sit' in previous line. The human creature,
though it sate steady on this unshakable earth, had no house over
its head. The bird, that lived on the tremblingest and weakest of
bending things, had her _nest_ on it, in which even her
infinitely tender brood were _deep_ sheltered and warm, from the
_wind_. It is impossible to find a lovelier instance of pure
poetical antithesis.

20. HOUSE. Again antithetic to the perfect word 'Home' in the
line before. A house is exactly, and only, half-way to a 'home.'
Man had not yet got so far as even that! and had lost, the chorus
satirically imply, even the power of getting the other half,
ever, since his "_She_ gave me of the tree."

24. BRICKS. The first bad inversion permitted, for "to combine
bricks with cement." In my Swallow lecture I had no time to go
into the question of her building materials; the point is,
however, touched upon in the Appendix (pp. 110, 112, and note).

30. 'DRILL,' for 'quarry out,' 'tunnel,' etc., the best general
term available.

36. COMPOSER of the music; POET of the meaning.

Compare, and think over, the Bullfinch's nest, etc., Sec. 48 to 61
of 'Eagle's Nest.'

In modern music the _meaning_ is, I believe, by the reputed
masters omitted.

39. To SPIN, or _un_ravel. Synthesis and analysis, in the vulgar
Greek slang.

46. MAD. Compare Byron of the English in _his_ day. "A parcel of
staring boobies who go about gaping