Many a silvery _water-break_
Above the golden gravel.
Tennyson, _The Brook_.
36. FLEECED WITH MOSS. Suggest a reason why the term "fleeced" has
peculiar appropriateness here.
39-40. Paraphrase these lines to bring out their meaning.
43-48. THEN UP I ROSE. Contrast this active exuberant pleasure not
unmixed with pain with the passive meditative joy that the preceding
lines express.
47-48. PATIENTLY GAVE UP THEIR QUIET BEING. Notice the attribution of
life to inanimate nature. Wordsworth constantly held that there was a
mind and all the attributes of mind in nature. _Cf_. l. 56, "for there
is a spirit in the woods."