"As a violet's gentle eye
Gazes on the azure sky
Until its hue grows like what it beholds.">[

[497] [{418}] [Compare Kubla Khan, lines 12, 13—

"But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!">[

[498] [Compare Hamlet, act ii. sc. 1, line 292—"This most excellent canopy the Air.">[

[om]

Feel the quick throbbing of a human heart
And the sweet sorrows of its deathless dying.—[MS. M. erased.]
or, And the sweet sorrow which exults in dying.—[MS. M. erased.]

[on] [{419}]

Oh Love! thou art no habitant of Earth
An unseen Seraph we believe in thee
And can point out thy time and place of birth.—[D. erased.]

[499] [M. Darmesteter traces the sentiment to a maxim (No. 76) of La Rochefoucauld: "Il est du véritable amour comme de l'apparition des esprits: tout le monde en parle, mais pen de gens en out vu.">[

[500] [{420}] [Compare Dryden on Shaftesbury (Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. lines 156-158)—