[Footnote EL: The fieldfares have a habit of settling together, and sitting perfectly still, till they are disturbed; when they fly off, and settling again, sit silently as before.--ED.] [Footnote EM: Blea Tarn.--ED.] [Footnote EN: Compare "Rules and Lessons" in Henry Vaughan's _Silex Scintillans_.--ED.] [Footnote EO: The heights of Blake Rigg and Lingmoor.--ED.] [Footnote EP: Possibly a misprint in the editions of 1814 and 1820.--ED.] [Footnote EQ: Compare the _Poet's Epitaph_ (vol. ii. p. 75).--ED.] [Footnote ER: Compare Genesis iii. 8.--ED.] [Footnote ES: Genesis xviii. 1, 2.--ED.] [Footnote ET: Genesis iii. 24.--ED.] [Footnote EU: Genesis iii. 16, 17.--ED.] [Footnote EV: Exodus vi. 3.--ED.] [Footnote EW: Exodus xxxiii. 9; xxxiv. 5.--ED.] [Footnote EX: Exodus xxxvii. 1; Hebrews ix. 4.--ED.] [Footnote EY: Exodus xxv. 22.--ED.] [Footnote EZ: Exodus xv. 25; xvi. 4, etc. etc.--ED.] [Footnote FA: Exodus vii.-xi.--ED.] [Footnote FB: The ancient Persian religion was nature worship.--ED.] [Footnote FC: Compare _Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey_, II. 100-102 (vol. ii. p. 55)-- A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. ED. ] [Footnote FD: Herodotus thus describes the temple of Belus:--"... A square enclosure two furlongs each way, with gates of solid brass; which were also remaining in my time. In the middle of the precinct there was a tower of solid masonry, a furlong in length and breadth, upon which was raised a second tower, and on that a third, and so up to eight. The ascent to the top is on the outside, by a path which winds round all the towers. When one is about half way up, one finds a resting place and seats, where persons are wont to sit some time in their way to the summit. On the topmost tower there is a spacious Temple, and inside the Temple stands a couch of unusual size, richly adorned, with a golden table by its side. There is no statue of any kind set up in the place.... The Chaldeans, the priests of this God, declare--but I, for my part, do not credit it--that the God comes down nightly into this chamber and sleeps upon the couch."--Herodotus, i. 181. See Rawlinson's version, vol. i. pp. 319, 320. Compare also Josephus, _Ant. Jud._ x. 11, and Strabo, 16.--ED.] [Footnote FE: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury--the only planets known to the ancients, the Earth not being included.--ED.] [Footnote FF: The reference here is still apparently to the "planetary Five," which are _all_ described as "radiant Mercuries" (although one of them was Mercury), because they all-- seemed to move Carrying through ether, in perpetual round, Decrees and resolutions of the Gods; And, by their aspects, signifying works Of dim futurity.