[A] The umbrage of an elm-tree, described earlier in the Sister Songs from which this and the six succeeding poems are detached.

[B] The chant of the Mistress of Vision, whom, in her secret garden, the Poet has earlier described.

[C] The Earth.

[D] Who had passed before him in ghostly procession—the "holy poets," the soldiers, sailors, and men of science.

[E] Cloud-shapes often observed by travellers in the East.

[F] This Poem (found among his papers when he died) Francis Thompson might yet have worked upon to remove, here a defective rhyme, there an unexpected elision. But no altered mind would he have brought to its main purport; and the prevision of "Heaven in Earth and God in Man," pervading his earlier published verse, we find here accented by poignantly local and personal allusions. For in these triumphing stanzas, he held in retrospect those days and nights of human dereliction he spent beside London's River, and in the shadow—but all radiance to him—of Charing Cross.