Inquisitive, the less ambiguous past.”
Tennyson, in his “Talking Oak,” alludes to the oaks of Dodona in these lines:
“And I will work in prose and rhyme,
And praise thee more in both
Than bard has honored beech or lime,
Or that Thessalian growth
In which the swarthy ring-dove sat
And mystic sentence spoke;” etc.
Byron alludes to the oracle of Delphi where, speaking of Rousseau, whose writings he conceives did much to bring on the French revolution, he says:
“For then he was inspired, and from him came,