9. =coronal.= A crown of flowers, a chaplet. As at the Roman banquets. On such occasions it was usual for the host to give chaplets to his guests. Festoons of flowers were also sometimes hung over their necks and breasts. The chaplet, or coronal, was regarded as a cheerful ornament and symbol of festivity. 10. =the babe leaps up.= That is for joy. See the poem, "My heart leaps up," on page 46. 11. =there's a tree.= Compare this thought with that contained in the following lines: "Only, one little sight, one plant, . . . whene'er the leaf grows there Its drop comes from my heart, that's all." --_Browning's May and Death._ 12. =pansy.= The flower of thought. From Fr. _pensée_, thought; _penser_, to think. "It probably derived its name, thought or fancy, from its fanciful appearance."--_Nares._ Another derivation of the word is from _panacea_, meaning _all-heal_, a name given by the Greeks to a plant which was popularly supposed to cure diseases and dispel sorrow. The notion that the pansy is a cure for grief is shown in its common English name, _heart's-ease_. 13. =Our birth is but a sleep.= The idea of pre-existence was a favorite one of the ancient philosophers. The doctrine of metempsychosis, a form of the same idea, was held by the ancient Egyptians and is still maintained by the Buddhists. Tennyson says: "As old mythologies relate, Some draught of Lethe might await The slipping through from state to state. "And if I lapsed from nobler place, Some legend of a fallen race Alone might hint of my disgrace."--_Two Voices._ 14. =Behold the child.= Pope gives a similar picture: "Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite."--_Essay on Man._ When Wordsworth wrote of "A six years' darling of a pigmy size," he probably had in mind Hartley Coleridge, who was then a child of that age. See his poem "To Hartley Coleridge, Six Years Old." 15. =humorous stage.= See Shakespeare's lines beginning "All the world's a stage," "As You like It," Act ii, sc. 7. The word _humorous_ has here a special sense, such as is used by Ben Jonson in his "Every Man in his Humor."