Sisters of the sacred well: the Muses, said to frequent the fountain Helicon on Mount Parnassus.
Mona: Anglesea, called by the Welsh Inis Dowil or the Dark Island, from its dense forests.
Deva: the Dee: a river which probably derived its magical character from Celtic traditions: it was long the boundary of Briton and Saxon.—These places are introduced, as being near the scene of the shipwreck.
Orpheus was torn to pieces by Thracian women; Amaryllis and Neaera names used here for the love idols of poets: as Damoetas previously for a shepherd.
the blind Fury: Atropos, fabled to cut the thread of life.
Arethuse and Mincius: Sicilian and Italian waters here alluded to as synonymous with the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil.
oat: pipe, used here like Collins' oaten stop, No. 146, for Song.
Hippotades: Aeolus, god of the Winds. Panope a Nereid. The names of local deities in the Hellenic mythology express generally some feature in the natural landscape, which the Greeks studied and analysed with their usual unequalled insight and feeling. Panope represents the boundlessness of the ocean-horizon when seen from a height, as compared with a limited horizon of the land in hilly countries such as Greece or Asia Minor.
Camus: the Cam; put for King's University.
The sanguine flower: the Hyacinth of the ancients; probably our Iris.