[Page 197]. l. [98]. patient . . . moon. Cf. i. [353], 'patient stars.' Their still, steady light.
l. [113]. So Apollo reaches his divinity—by knowledge which includes experience of human suffering—feeling 'the giant-agony of the world'.
[Page 198]. l. [114]. gray, hoary with antiquity.
l. [128]. immortal death. Cf. Swinburne's Garden of Proserpine, st. 7.
Who gathers all things mortal
With cold immortal hands.
[Page 199]. l. [136]. Filled in, in pencil, in a transcript of Hyperion by Keats's friend Richard Woodhouse—
Glory dawn'd, he was a god.
FOOTNOTES:
[245:1] 'If any apology be thought necessary for the appearance of the unfinished poem of Hyperion, the publishers beg to state that they alone are responsible, as it was printed at their particular request, and contrary to the wish of the author. The poem was intended to have been of equal length with Endymion, but the reception given to that work discouraged the author from proceeding.'