[[71]] Stanza 16, of Shenstone's twenty-sixth Elegy.
[[72]] The Excursion, 6. 869 ff.
[[73]] I cannot quit this subject without giving two more instances, both exquisite, of the pathetic fallacy, which I have just come upon, in Maud:—
For a great speculation had fail'd;
And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair;
And out he walk'd, when the wind like a broken worldling wail'd,
And the flying gold of the ruin'd woodlands drove thro' the air.
There has fallen a splendid tear
From the passion-flower at the gate.
The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near!"