We may quote also his Vision of Sir Launfal:
| "It seemed the dark castle had gathered all Those shafts the fierce sun had shot over its wall In his siege of three hundred summers long," etc. |
[54.] Gray's note here is as follows: "Extensive influence of poetic genius over the remotest and most uncivilized nations; its connection with liberty and the virtues that naturally attend on it. [See the Erse, Norwegian, and Welsh fragments; the Lapland and American songs.]" He also quotes Virgil, Æn. vi. 796: "Extra anni solisque vias," and Petrarch, Canz. 2: "Tutta lontana dal camin del sole." Cf. also Dryden, Thren. August. 353: "Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway;" Ann. Mirab. st. 160: "Beyond the year, and out of Heaven's highway;" Brit. Red.: "Beyond the sunny walks and circling year;" also Pope, Essay on Man, i. 102: "Far as the solar walk and milky way."
[56.] Twilight gloom. Wakefield quotes Milton, Hymn on Nativ. 188: "The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn."
[57.] Wakefield says, "It almost chills one to read this verse." The MS. variations are "buried native's" and "chill abode."
[60.] Repeat [their chiefs, etc.]. Sing of them again and again.
[61.] In loose numbers, etc. Cf. Milton, L'All. 133:
| "Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild;" |
and Horace, Od. iv. 2, 11: