“The mountain-shadows ..
..................... lie
Like future joys to Fancy’s eye.’

His completed thought would be, that these future joys, like the mountain-shadows, were never to be attained.  It occurs fully uttered in many other places.  He seems to have been constantly rebuking his own worldly pride and vanity, but never purposefully: 

    ’The foam-globes on her eddies ride,
     Thick as the schemes of human pride
     That down life’s current drive amain,
     As frail, as frothy, and as vain.’”

Ruskin adds, among other illustrations, the reference to “foxglove and nightshade” in i. 218, 219 above.

28.  Like future joys, etc.  This passage, quoted by Ruskin above, also illustrates what is comparatively rare in figurative language—­ taking the immaterial to exemplify the material.  The latter is constantly used to symbolize or elucidate the former; but one would have to search long in our modern poetry to find a dozen instances where, as here, the relation is reversed.  Cf. 639 below.  We have another example in the second passage quoted by Ruskin.  Cf. also Tennyson’s

     “thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke,
     That like a broken purpose waste in air;”

and Shelly’s

   “Our boat is asleep on Serchio’s stream;
     Its sails are folded like thoughts in a dream.”

30.  Reared.  The 1st ed. has “oped.”

32.  After this line the Ms. has the couplet,

    “Invisible in fleecy cloud,
     The lark sent down her matins loud,”

which reappears in altered form below.

33.  Gray mist.  The Ms. has “light mist.”

38.  Good-morrow gave, etc.  Cf.  Byron, Childe Harold: 

                             “and the bills
    Of summer-birds sing welcome as ye pass.”

39.  Cushat dove.  Ring-dove.

46.  His impatient blade.  Note the “transferred epithet.”  It is not the blade that is impatient.

47.  Beneath a rock, etc.  The Ms. reads: 

    “Hard by, his vassals’ early care
     The mystic ritual prepare.”

50.  Antiquity.  The men of old; “the abstract for the concrete.”

59.  With her broad shadow, etc.  Cf.  Longfellow, Maidenhood: 

    “Seest thou shadows sailing by,
     As the dove, with startled eye,
     Sees the falcon’s shadow fly?”

62.  Rowan.  The mountain-ash.

71.  That monk, of savage form and face.  Scott says here:  “The state of religion in the middle ages afforded considerable facilities for those whose mode of life excluded them from regular worship, to secure, nevertheless, the ghostly assistance of confessors, perfectly willing to adapt the nature of their doctrine to the necessities and peculiar circumstances of their flock.  Robin Hood, it is well known, had his celebrated domestic chaplain