And the white rose weeps, "She is late."
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear!"
And the lily whispers, "I wait." [Ruskin.]
[[74]] Endymion, 2. 349-350.
[[75]] See p. 68.
[[76]] Iliad, 21. 212-360.
[[77]] Compare Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto i. stanza 15, and canto v. stanza 2. In the first instance, the river-spirit is accurately the Homeric god, only Homer would have believed in it,—Scott did not, at least not altogether. [Ruskin.]
[[78]] The Excursion, 4. 861-871.
[[79]] Genesis xxviii, 12; xxxii, 1; xxii, 11; Joshua v, 13 ff.; Judges xiii, 3 ff.
[[80]] Iliad, 5. 846.