"In thy full language speaking mighty things, Like a clear torrent close, or else diffus'd A broad majestic stream, and rolling on Through all the winding harmony of sound." 9. Cf. Shenstone, _Inscr._: "Verdant vales and fountains bright;" also Virgil, _Geo._ i. 96: "Flava Ceres;" and Homer, _Il._ v. 499: [Greek: xanthê Dêmêtêr]. 10. _Rolling_. Spelled "rowling" in the 1st and other early editions. _Amain_. Cf. _Lycidas_, 111: "The golden opes, the iron shuts amain;" _P. L._ ii. 165: "when we fled amain," etc. Also Shakes. _Temp._ iv. 1: "Her peacocks fly amain," etc. The word means literally _with main_ (which we still use in "might and main"), that is, with force or strength. Cf. Horace, _Od._ iv. 2, 8: "Immensusque ruit profundo Pindarus ore." 11. The first MS. reading was, "With torrent rapture see it pour." 12. Cf. Dryden, _Virgil's Geo._ i.: "And rocks the bellowing voice of boiling seas resound;" Pope, _Iliad_: "Rocks rebellow to the roar." 13. "Power of harmony to calm the turbulent sallies of the soul. The thoughts are borrowed from the first Pythian of Pindar" (Gray). 14. _Solemn-breathing airs_. Cf. _Comus_, 555: "a soft and solemn-breathing sound." 15. _Enchanting shell_. That is, lyre; alluding to the myth of the origin of the instrument, which Mercury was said to have made from the shell of a tortoise. Cf. Collins, _Passions_, 3: "The Passions oft, to hear her shell," etc. 17. _On Thracia's hills_. Thrace was one of the chief seats of the worship of Mars. Cf. Ovid, _Ars Am._ ii. 588: "Mars Thracen occupat." See also Virgil, _Æn._ iii. 35, etc. 19. _His thirsty lance_. Cf. Spenser, _F. Q._ i. 5, 15: "his thristy [thirsty] blade." 20. Gray says, "This is a weak imitation of some beautiful lines in the same ode;" that is, in "the first Pythian of Pindar," referred to in the note on 13. The passage is an address to the lyre, and is translated by Wakefield thus: "On Jove's imperial rod the king of birds Drops down his flagging wings; thy thrilling sounds Soothe his fierce beak, and pour a sable cloud Of slumber on his eyelids: up he lifts His flexile back, shot by thy piercing darts. Mars smooths his rugged brow, and nerveless drops His lance, relenting at the choral song." 21. _The feather'd king_. Cf. Shakes. _Phoenix and Turtle_: "Every fowl of tyrant wing, Save the eagle, feather'd king." 23. _Dark clouds_. The first reading of MS. was "black clouds." 24. _The terror_. This is the reading of the first ed. and also of that of 1768. Most of the modern eds. have "terrors." 25. "Power of harmony to produce all the graces of motion in the body" (Gray). 26. _Temper'd_. Modulated, "set." Cf. _Lycidas_, 33: "Tempered to the oaten flute;" Fletcher, _Purple Island_: "Tempering their sweetest notes unto thy lay," etc.