"woven shades"--shadows interlacing. "riotous noonday sun"--beating down hard. "ye held me fast in your heart"--attracted and delighted me. "I held you fast in mine"--loved, enjoyed. "riot is rest"--the heat of the day is past, all is quiet. "a-wait"--waiting. "ponderous gate"--vast western horizon at sunset. "wood aisle"--path of sun's rays in the woods at sunset. "drunken the soul of the oak"--absorbed its strength. "scythe of time"--symbol of death. "trowel of trade"--symbol of industry. "belief overmasters doubt"--inner confidence, faith takes the place of uncertainty. "I know that I know"--become self-confident thro' a Power greater than self. "My spirit grows to a lordly great compass within"--My soul becomes its own confident guide, relying on a Power greater than self. "When length was fatigue"--tiresome to look at--he was unable to understand it. "breadth was but bitterness sore"--so vast as to be disappointing and beyond his ability to know and control. "drew over me out of the merciless miles of the plain"--The vastness of the marshes filled him with fear and awe. "sweet visage of space"--He came to love the view of the marshes. "belt of the dawn"--the line where the gray beach and the woods come together is like the horizon at daybreak. "For a mete and a mark"--a line to measure and distinguish the limits of the marsh. "affable live oak"--friendly, kindly. "lord of the land"--the oak tree. "sinuous southward"--irregular line connecting wood and marsh. "fastens the fringe of the marsh to the folds of the land"--the line which marks the coming together of the marsh and the land--"the shimmering band." "gray looping of light"--the light reflected or thrown back from the woods in the dim distance. "terminal blue of the main"--the sea coast, the coast line. "weighing of fate"--serious thoughts of the future. "publish yourselves"--to show or to expose. "offer yourselves"--the sea overruns the marsh. "Tolerant plains"--generous, broad, liberal. "mightily won God out of Knowledge"--won thro' kindness and love, and broad-mindedness. "good out of infinite pain"--was helped by suffering to become noble and true. "build me a nest on the greatness of God"--to establish himself on the principles of the great Power. "lay me a-hold on the greatness of God"--to lay hold of this Heavenly beauty and goodness and greatness. "liberal marshes"--great, broad. Thro' these he learned the beauty of greatness and of broad-mindedness in man, and from that to the greatness of God was but a natural step. "sea lends large"--sends its waters out in tides over the marsh country twice a day. "grace of the sea"--the generous waters of the sea. "rosy and silvery essences"--relates to the color of the water in the channel, as determined by the setting sun's rays. "passeth a hurrying sound of wings"--a sound of wings hurrying past.