"Rolled round in earth's diurnal course / with rocks, and stones, and trees"
- the grandness/fanciness of "diurnal" here comes into the foreground
precisely because of the lexical (though not metaphorical) plainness
of the surrounding context. In Wordsworth, you notice a word like
"diurnal" - it has a power of surprise that it wouldn't have in (say)
Dryden, where it would simply belong to the prevailing register.
Dominic
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