Arte materna rapidos morantem
Fluminum lapsus . . .’
and Verg. G. iv. 510:
‘Mulcentem tigris et agentem carmine quercus.’
Shakesp. Hen. VIII. III. i.:
‘Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain-tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did sing’;
or read Tennyson’s poem ‘Amphion.’
Lines 5, 6.—Cf. Isaiah xi. 6: ‘The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.’