10. FOR THAT SERVICE. i.e., for nutting.

12-13. OF POWER TO SMILE AT THORNS=_able to defy_, etc. Not because of
their strength, but because so ragged that additional rents were of small
account.

21. VIRGIN=_unmarred, undevastated_.

31. Explain the line. Notice the poetical way in which the poet conveys
the idea of solitude, (l. 30-32).

33. FAIRY WATER-BREAKS=_wavelets, ripples_. _Cf_.:--

Many a silvery _water-break_
Above the golden gravel.
Tennyson, _The Brook_.

36. FLEECED WITH MOSS. Suggest a reason why the term "fleeced" has
peculiar appropriateness here.

39-40. Paraphrase these lines to bring out their meaning.

43-48. THEN UP I ROSE. Contrast this active exuberant pleasure not
unmixed with pain with the passive meditative joy that the preceding
lines express.

47-48. PATIENTLY GAVE UP THEIR QUIET BEING. Notice the attribution of
life to inanimate nature. Wordsworth constantly held that there was a
mind and all the attributes of mind in nature. _Cf_. l. 56, "for there