35. CONFEDERATE. Qualifies "we," or "games." Point out the different
shades of meaning for each agreement.
42. TINKLED LIKE IRON. "When very many are skating together, the sounds
and the noises give an impulse to the icy trees, and the woods all round
the lake _tinkle_." S. T. Coleridge in _The Friend_, ii, 325 (1818).
42-44. The keenness of Wordsworth's sense perceptions was very
remarkable. His susceptibility to impressions of sound is well
illustrated in this passage, which closes (l. 43-46) with a color picture
of striking beauty and appropriateness.