11.  LESSER WAIN.  Ursa Minor, or the Little Bear; a small constellation containing the pole star.  Wain means “wagon,” another name for the constellation.

14.  HERN AND CRAKE.  Heron and corn-crake.

21.  LABOURER.  He does not move away, but stays always there.

22.  GLEBE.  Soil.

CXIV

“The world now is all for the spread of knowledge:  and I should be the last to demur.  But knowledge has an ardent impetuosity, which in its present immature condition may be fraught with many perils.  Knowledge by itself, so far from being of necessity heavenly, may even become devilish in its selfish violence.  Everything depends upon its being held in due subordination to those higher elements in our nature which go to make wisdom.  Would that the ideal aim of our education were to produce such as he was, in whom every increase in intellectual ability was accompanied by the growth of some finer grace of the spirit.”—­Arthur W. Robinson.

4.  HER PILLARS.  “Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.”—­Proverbs 9:  1.

5.  A FIRE.  The fire of inspiration.

6.  SETS.  Hard, like a flint.

6.  FORWARD.  Bold, without reverence.

7.  CHANCE.  Of success.

8.  TO DESIRE.  Governed by passion, without restraint or self-control.

10.  FEAR OF DEATH.  Knowledge does not know what is beyond the grave and therefore fears death.

11.  CUT FROM LOVE, ETC.  Wallace says:  “Knowledge, in its own nature, can have no love, for love is not of the intellect, and knowledge is all of the intellect:  so, too, she can have no faith, for faith in its nature is a confession of ignorance, since she believes what she cannot know.”

12.  PALLAS.  Pallas Athene, the goddess of wisdom among the Greeks, was fabled to have sprung, fully grown and fully armed, from the brain of Zeus.  Wild Pallas means “false wisdom.”

17.  A HIGHER HAND.  Wisdom.

23.  THY GOAL.  The goal of wisdom.

28.  REVERENCE, ETC.  In faith and love.

CXV

“Another spring has come, and all its lovely sights and sounds wake answering chords in the poet’s breast.  The life within him stirs and quickens in responsive harmony with the world without.  But his regret, too, blossoms like a flower,”—­Elizabeth R. Chapman.

2.  BURGEONS.  Buds.

2.  MAZE OF QUICK.  Quick-set tangle.

3.  SQUARES.  Fields.

8.  SIGHTLESS.  Invisible.

14.  GREENING.  Shining out on the sea.

CXVIII

“Do not believe that man’s soul is like mere matter, or has been produced, like lower forms in the earlier ages of the earth, only to perish.  Believe that he is destined both to advance to something higher on the earth, and also to develop in some higher place elsewhere, if he repeats the process of evolution by subduing the lower within him to the uses of the higher, whether in peaceful growth or through painful struggle.”—­A.  C. Bradley.