On earth's far confines, like the Tree of Dreams.
"In medio ramos," &c.—Virgil, lib. vi. 282.
"An elm displays her dusky arms abroad,
And empty dreams on every leaf are spread."—Dryden.
To the wild faith of Iran's Zendavest.
Zendavest. Compare the winged genius of the Etrurians with the Feroher of the Persians, in the sculptured reliefs of Persepolis. (See Heeren's Historical Researches, art. Persians.) Micali, vol. ii. p. 174, points out some points of similarity between the Persian and Etrurian cosmogony. It was peculiar to the Etrurians, amongst the classic nations of Europe, to delineate their deities with wings. Even when they borrowed some Hellenic god, they still invested him with this attribute, so especially Eastern.
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Seem'd as the thread in fairy tales, which strung.
In a legend of Bretagne, a fairy weaves pearls round a sunbeam, to convince her lover of her magical powers.