[Footnote 7: Something served for the refreshment of a person; here an intellectual feast fit for a prince.]
[Footnote 8: Arcady, or Arcadia, is a place of ideal simplicity and contentment; so called from a picturesque district in Greece, which was noted for the simplicity and happiness of its people.]
[Footnote 9: This poem will serve to illustrate Hayne's skill in the use of blank verse. It is a piece of rare excellence and beauty. The name of the heroine is pronounced Ee-thra.]
[Footnote 10: This migration occurred about 708 B.C.]
[Footnote 11: Apollo was one of the major deities of Grecian mythology. He was regarded, among other things, as the god of song or minstrelsy, and also as the god of prophetic inspiration. The most celebrated oracle of Apollo was at Delphi.]
[Footnote 12: A town in southern Italy, now Taranto. It was in ancient times a place of great commercial importance.]
[Footnote 13: For the occasion of this poem, see page 61. The poet had a peculiar fondness for the pine, which in one of his poems he calls—
"My sylvan darling! set 'twixt shade and sheen,
Soft as a maid, yet stately as a queen!"
It is the subject of a half-dozen poems,—The Voice of the Pines,
Aspect of the Pines, In the Pine Barrens, The Dryad of the Pine, The
Pine's Mystery, and The Axe and the Pine,—all of them in his
happiest vein.]
[Footnote 14: In The Pine's Mystery we read:—