somewhere, we cannot question its title to these meadows, but we doubt
its power to retain possession, except in some favoured locality.

9. 'And chancing lights on willowy waterbreaks'. (22)


We have to guess what a _waterbreak_ is, having found no other example
of the word.

10. 'Of hobby-horses with their starting eyes'. (23)


#Hobby-horse# as a local or rustic name for dragon-fly can have no
right to general acceptance.

11. 'Stolchy ploughlands hid in grief.' (24)


#Stolchy# is so good a word that it does not need a dictionary.
Wright gives only the verb _stolch_ 'to tread down, trample, to walk in
the dirt'. The adjective is therefore primarily applicable to wet land
that has become sodden and miry by being _poached_ by cattle, and then
to any ground in a similar condition. Since _poach_ is a somewhat
confused homophone, its adjective _poachy_ has no chance against
_stolchy_.

12. 'I whirry through the dark'. (24)


#Whirry# is another word that explains itself, and perhaps the more