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NOTES

NOTE 1, Page 3

My Marguerite smiles upon the strand

SEE in the first volume, among 'Early Poems,' the poem called 'A Memory-Picture.'

NOTE 2, Page 33

The Hunter of the Tanagraan Field

Orion, the Wild Huntsman of Greek legend, and in this capacity appearing in both earth and sky.

NOTE 3, Page 35

O'er the sun-redden'd western straits

Erytheia, the legendary region around the Pillars of Hercules, probably took its name from the redness of the West under which the Greeks saw it.

NOTE 4, Page 121

That son of Italy who tried to blow

Giacopone di Todi.

NOTE 5, Page 131

Recalls the obscure opposer he outweigh'd

Gilbert de la Porrée, at the Council of Rheims, in 1148.

NOTE 6, Page 133

Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried

The Montanists.

NOTE 7, Page 134

Monica

See ST. AUGUSTINE's Confessions, book ix. chap. xi.

NOTE 8, Page 236

And the kind, chance-arrived Wanderer

Poias, the father of Philoctetes. Passing near, he was attracted
by the concourse round the pyre, and at the entreaty of Hercules
set fire to it, receiving the bow and arrows of the hero as his reward.

NOTE 9, Page 279

And that curst treachery on the Mount of Gore

Mount Hamus, so called, said the legend, from Typho's blood
spilt on it in his last battle with Zeus, when the giant's strength
failed, owing to the Destinies having a short time before given
treacherously to him, for his refreshment, perishable fruits. See
APOLLODORUS, Bibliotheca, book i. chap. vi.

NOTE 10, Page 286

Ye Sun-born Virgins! on the road of truth

See the Fragments of Parmenides :

κουραι δ' ὁδὸν ἡγεμόνευον,
ἡλίαδες κοῦραι, προλιπούσαι δώματα νυκτός,

NOTE 11, Page 297

Couldst thou no better keep, O Abbey old,
The boon thy dedication-sign foretold.

'Ailred of Rievaulx, and several other writers, assert that Sebert, king of the East Saxons and nephew of Ethelbert, founded the Abbey of Westminster very early in the seventh century.

'Sulcardus, who lived in the time of William the Conqueror, gives a minute account of the miracle supposed to have been worked at the consecration of the Abbey.

'The church had been prepared against the next day for dedication. On the night preceding, St. Peter appeared on the opposite side of the water to a fisherman, desiring to be conveyed to the farther shore. Having left the boat, St. Peter ordered the fisherman to wait, promising him a reward on his return. An innumerable host from heaven accompanied the apostle, singing choral hymns, while everything was illuminated with a supernatural light. The dedication having been completed, St. Peter returned to the fisherman, quieted his alarm at what had passed, and announced himself as the apostle. He directed the fisherman to go as soon as it was day to the authorities, to state what he had seen and heard, and to inform them that, in corroboration of his testimony, they would find the marks of consecration on the walls of the church. In obedience to the apostle's direction, the fisherman waited on Mellitus, bishop of London, who, going to the church, found not only marks of the chrism, but of the tapers with which the church had been illuminated. Mellitus, therefore, desisted from proceeding to a new consecration, and contented himself with the celebration of the mass.'-DUGDALE, Monasticon Anglicanum (edition of 1817), vol. i. pp. 265, 266. See also MONTALEMBERT, Les Moines

d'Occident, vol. iii. pp. 428-432.

NOTE 12, Page 300

The charm'd babe of the Eleusinian king

Demophoön, son of Celeus, king of Eleusis. See, in the Homeric Hymns, the Hymn to Demeter,' 184-298.