VII. “But Isidora’s lot was e’en more drear,
For none might dare from San Sebastian pass.”
La verde primavera
De mis floridos años
Pasé cautiva en tus prisiones,
Y en la cadena fiera.
Lope de Vega, Arcadia.
“To pluck the summer flowers, and brush the dewy grass.”
“In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with Heaven and Earth.”—Milton, Tractate on Education, § 22.
VIII. ——“Invoked the Virgin’s might,
And deemed she saw her form within that orb of light.”