Sweeping the Parlour in the Interpreter’s House.
FOOTNOTES
[1] November 20 has been stated as the date, but the above is shown to be correct by the horoscope drawn for November 28, 7.45 P.M. in Urania, or the Astrologer’s Chronicle, 1825, published therefore in Blake’s lifetime, and undoubtedly derived from Varley.
[2] If, however, the “Kitty” of “I love the jocund dance” is Catherine Boucher, this poem at least must be later than 1780, unless the name has been substituted for another, as has been known to happen.
[3] As for example “Man lies by a rock-bound shore, his thoughts flying forth from him in likeness of delicate airy figures driven by the wind to perish in the endless sea as soon as born.” In the absence of the drawings themselves such descriptions affect us like the projects for unwritten stories in Hawthorne’s American Note Book.
Poetis nos laetamur tribus,
Pye, Petro Pindar, parvo Pybus;