[116] _Consort_ is the right word scientifically. It means the _fitting together_ of sounds according to their nature. _Concert_, however, is not wrong. It is even more poetic than _consort_, for it means a _striving together_, which is the idea of all peace: the strife is _together_, and not of one against the other. All harmony is an ordered, a divine strife. In the contest of music, every tone restrains its foot and bows its head to the rest in holy dance. [117] _Symphony_ is here used for _chorus_, and quite correctly; for _symphony_ is a _voicing together_. To this symphony of the angels the spheres and the heavenly organ are the accompaniment. [118] Die of the music. [119] Not merely _swings_, but _lashes about_. [120] Full of folds or coils. [121] The legend concerning this cessation of the oracles associates it with the Crucifixion. Milton in _The Nativity_ represents it as the consequence of the very presence of the infant Saviour. War and lying are banished together. [122] The _genius_ is the local god, the god of the place as a place. [123] The _Lars_ were the protecting spirits of the ancestors of the family; the _Lemures_ were evil spirits, spectres, or bad ghosts. But the notions were somewhat indefinite. [124] _Flamen_ was the word used for _priest_ when the Romans spoke of the priest of any particular divinity. Hence the _peculiar power_ in the last line of the stanza. [125] Jupiter Ammon, worshipped in Libya, in the north of Africa, under the form of a goat. "He draws in his horn." [126] The Syrian Adonis. [127] Frightful, horrible, as, _a grisly bear_. [128] Isis, Orus, Anubis, and Osiris, all Egyptian divinities--the last worshipped in the form of a bull. [129] No rain falls in Egypt. [130] Last-born: the star in the east. [131] Bright-armoured. [132] Ready for what service may arise. [133] The _with_ we should now omit, for when we use it we mean the opposite of what is meant here. [134] It is the light of the soul going out from the eyes, as certainly as the light of the world coming in at the eyes that makes things seen. [135] The action by which a body attacked collects force by opposition. [136] Cut roughly through. [137] Intransitively used. They touch each other. [138] Self-desire, which is death's pit, &c. [139] _Which_ understood. [140] How unpleasant conceit can become. 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.