[61] The "towering sycamore" must be a notable tree on the lawn, again
alluded to in P. xcv., s. 14. _It is cut down, and the four poplars are
gone, and the lawn is no longer a flat one._
[62] "In summer twilight she, as evening star, is seen surrounded with the
glow of sunset, _crimson-circled_."
Spedding's _Bacon_, vol. vi., p. 615.
[63] In the "Lotus Eaters," we read
"all hath suffered change;
For surely now our household hearths are cold:
Our sons inherit us: our looks are strange:
And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy."
[64] The kingfisher is here meant, which, like other birds, puts on its
best plumage in early spring--see "Locksley Hall"--
"In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast;
In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest;
In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove."