[628:1] Jaws of death.—Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 4. Du Bartas: Weekes and Workes, day i. part 4.
[629:1] See Cowper, page [422].
[631:1] The poet alluded to is Goethe. I know this from Lord Tennyson himself, although he could not identify the passage; and when I submitted to him a small book of mine on his marvellous poem, he wrote, "It is Goethe's creed," on this very passage.—Rev. Dr. Getty (vicar of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire).
[631:2] See Longfellow, page [616].
[632:1] See Shakespeare, page [144].
[632:2] I sing but as the linnet sings.—Goethe: Wilhelm Meister, book ii. chap. xi.
[632:3] See Crabbe, page [444].
RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES (LORD HOUGHTON). 1809-1885.
But on and up, where Nature's heart