[dr] ——whose altars cease to burn.—[D.]
[ds] ——whose Faith is built on reeds.—[MS. D. erased.]
[115] [{102}] [Compare Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act iii, sc. 1, lines 5-7—
"Reason thus with life:
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
That none but fools would keep.">[
[dt] Still wilt thou harp——.—[MS. D. erased.]
[du] Though 'twas a God, as graver records tell.—[MS. erased.]
[116] [The demigods Erechtheus and Theseus "appeared" at Marathon, and fought side by side with Miltiades (Grote's History of Greece, iv. 284).]
[117] [{103}] [Compare Shakespeare, Hamlet, act v. sc. 1, passim.]
[118] [Socrates affirmed that true self-knowledge was to know that we know nothing, and in his own case he denied any other knowledge; but "this confession of ignorance was certainly not meant to be a sceptical denial of all knowledge." "The idea of knowledge was to him a boundless field, in the face of which he could not but be ignorant" (Socrates and the Socratic Schools, by Dr. E. Zeller, London, 1868, p. 102).]
[119] [Stanzas viii. and ix. are not in the MS.