_palpable_, having
material
existence; literally,
touchable.
Keats
PAGE 174. ll. 133-5. _that old . . . darkness._ Uranus was the same as
Coelus, the god of the sky. The 'book' is the sky, from which ancient
sages drew their lore. Cf. i. 277-80.
PAGE 175. l. 153.
_palpable_, having
material
existence; literally,
touchable.
PAGE 176. l. 159. _unseen parent dear._ Coelus, since the air is
invisible.
l. 168. _no . . . grove._ 'Sophist and sage' suggests the philosophers
of ancient Greece.
