[650] Scartazzini takes the passage as referring to Eden only, and interprets that all the air here is moving evenly and noiselessly unless it meets with any obstacle such as this forest, when a murmuring sound results.

[651] Purg. ix. 30-33.

[652] Par. i. 76-81.

[653] Par. xxi. 58-63.

[654] Hymn on the Nativity.

[655] Merchant of Venice.

[656]

“The song of those who sing for ever After the music of the eternal spheres.” Purg. xxx. 92, 93. (Longfellow).

[657] Conv. IV. viii. 51-64.

[658] Conv. II. vii. 104-108.