[277] {346} [Compare—
"Strange things I have in head, that will to hand,
Which must be acted, ere they may be scanned."
Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4, lines 139, 140.]
[kf] {347} There lie the lover's hope—the watcher's toil.—[MS.]
[kg] And half-Existence melts within a grave.—[MS.]
[278] {348} [Compare—
"Now slowly melting into day,
Vapour and mist dissolved away."
Sotheby's Constance de Castile, Canto III. stanza v. lines 17, 18.]
[279] [Compare the last lines of Pippa's song in Browning's Pippa Passes—"God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world!">[
[280] [Mr. Alexander Dyce points out the resemblance between these lines and a passage in one of Pope's letters to Steele (July 15, 1712, Works, 1754, viii. 226): "The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green.">[