Keats imagines some man who has not heard the laugh hearing
with
bewilderment
its echo in the depths of the forest.
Keats
l. 4. _pall._ Cf. _Isabella_, l. 268.
l. 9. _fleeces_, the leaves of the forest, cut from them by the wind as
the wool is shorn from the sheep's back.
PAGE 134. l. 13. _ivory shrill_, the shrill sound of the ivory horn.
ll. 15-18.
Keats imagines some man who has not heard the laugh hearing
with
bewilderment
its echo in the depths of the forest.
l. 21. _seven stars_, Charles's Wain or the Big Bear.
l. 22. _polar ray_, the light of the Pole, or North, star.
l. 30. _pasture Trent_, the fields about the Trent, the river of
Nottingham, which runs by Sherwood forest.
PAGE 135. l. 33. _morris._ A dance in costume which, in the Tudor
period, formed a part of every village festivity. It was generally
danced by five men and a boy in girl's dress, who represented Maid
Marian.
