[24] No doubt one reason would be that given by the Australian black woman for leaving her baby in the bush, “him too much cry.” The Greeks had numerous slaves, and were fond of comfort; and their houses were, of course, small and cramped compared with our own.
[25] Black care, Horace, Od. 3, 1, 40.
[26] Water-clocks, used like an hour-glass.
[27] When “Balder the Beautiful” was published in the Contemporary (March-May, 1877), Buchanan had the following note, which he has not repeated in his collected works: “Balder (in this poem) is the divine spirit of earthly beauty and joy, and the only one of the gods who loves and pities men. Sick of the darkness of heaven, he returns to the earth which fostered him, and of which he is beloved, and now for the first time he becomes conscious of that Shadow of Death, which darkens the lot of all mortal things.”
[28] Quoted in E. Clodd’s Story of Creation.
[29] Italics mine.
[30] See, for instance, Kipling’s beautiful poem “A Dedication”
The depth and dream of my desire,
The bitter paths wherein I stray,
Thou knowest Who hast made the Fire,