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fer to the foot-races of the ancients. "More than my brothers are to me," is repeated in P. lxxix., 1.
Very beautifully is the picture continued of the ship's passage, and he appeals to it for safely conducting
"Thy dark freight, a vanish'd life."
The placid scene, which he had imagined as attending the vessel, harmonizes with the home-bred fancy, that it is sweeter
"To rest beneath the clover sod, That takes the sunshine and the rains;"
that is, to be buried in the open churchyard;
"Or where the kneeling hamlet drains The chalice of the grapes of God."
that is, in the chancel of the church, near the altar rails; than if, together with the ship, "the roaring wells" of the sea
"Should gulf him fathom deep in brine; And hands so often clasp'd in mine, Should toss with tangle and with shells."
This Poem would describe a calm and quiet day in October--late autumn.
The stillness of the spot is just broken by the sound of the horse chestnut falling through the dead leaves, and these are reddening to their own fall. No time of the year is more quiet, not even is the insect abroad: the waves just swell and fall noiselessly, and this reminds him of
"The dead calm in that noble breast Which heaves but with the heaving deep."
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