PARALLEL IDEAS FROM POETS.
Longfellow and Tennyson:
"And like a lily on a river floating,
She floats upon the river of his thoughts."
Spanish Student, Act II. Sc. 3.
"Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake;
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me."
Princess, Part vii.
Wordsworth and Keble:
"A book, upon whose leaves some chosen plants
By his own hand disposed with nicest care,
In undecaying beauty were preserved;—
Mute register, to him, of time and place,
And various fluctuations in the breast;
To her, a monument of faithful love
Conquered, and in tranquillity retained!"
Excursion, Book vi.
"Like flower-leaves in a precious volume stor'd,
To solace and relieve
Some heart too weary of the restless world."
Christian Year: Prayers to be used at Sea.
Moore and Keble:
"Now by those stars that glance
O'er Heaven's still expanse
Weave we our mirthful dance,
Daughters of Zea!"
Evenings in Greece.
"Beneath the moonlight sky,
The festal warblings flow'd,
Where maidens to the Queen of Heaven
Wove the gay dance."
Christian Year: Eighth Sunday after Trinity.
Norris Deck.
Cambridge.