FOOTNOTES
[1] This curious oracle seems purposely to confuse the singular and plural.
[2] Digression in praise of the political administration of the Pisistratidæ.
[3] “For the two men lived together, and had their possessions in common.” Iamblichus, de Vita Pythagoræ bk. i. ch. 33.
[4] “For now we see by means of a mirror darkly (lit. enigmatically); but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” 1 Cor. xiii. 12.
[5] Seen within the flower we call Larkspur.
[6] The Sun.
[7] Benecke, Woman in Greek Poetry, traces a germ of this romance even in Greek days.
[8] “De la Servitude Volontaire”.
[9] As Whitman in this connection (like Tennyson in connection with In Memoriam) is sure to be accused of morbidity, it may be worth while to insert the following note from In re Walt Whitman, p. 115, “Dr. Drinkard in 1870, when Whitman broke down from rupture of a small blood-vessel in the brain, wrote to a Philadelphia doctor detailing Whitman’s case, and stating that he was a man ‘with the most natural habits, bases, and organisation he had ever seen.’”