—“Our day is gone:
Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done.”
There are gods as good for the after-years; but Odin is down, and his pair of unreturning birds have flown west and east.
FOOTNOTES:
[45] A popular eighteenth-century beverage, composed of wine, orange, and sugar.
[46] Although Langton is recorded on his college books as having given the usual £10 for plate, and also as having paid his caution money in 1757, his name is not down upon the matriculation lists, possibly because he failed to appear at the moment the entries were being made. In what must have been his destined space upon one of the pages, Dr. Ingram made this note: “Q. Num Bennet Langton hic inserendus?”
[47] A boyish fashion of self-entertainment afterwards in great favor with Shelley.
[48] It is a pleasant thing to remember that it was Langton, always an appreciator of Goldsmith’s lovable genius, who suggested “Auburn” as the name for his Deserted Village. There is a hamlet called Auborne in Lincolnshire.
[49] Langton’s sisters are generally spoken of as three in number. But Burke’s History of the Landed Gentry mentions but two, Diana and Juliet. There was a younger brother, Ferne, who died in boyhood, and the floral name, not unlike a girl’s, may have been responsible for the confusion.
[50] The fruiterer.