Note 1 — Chapter XII

This differs from the usual interpretation, which makes this verse a metaphor of the mouth and teeth. This has been rejected above, not only on account of the direct evidence of its faultiness, and the fanciful interpretation given to the "sound of grinding," but for the twofold reason that it would make the teeth to be alluded to twice, whilst all reference to the equally important sense of "hearing" would be omitted altogether. I have therefore followed Dr. Lewis's metrical version:— "And closing are the doors that lead abroad, When the hum of the mill is sounding low, Though it rise to the sparrow's note, And voices loudest in the song, do all to faintness sink."