While love and music through each grove resound.
[*] Alluding to the ancient Egyptian form of worship.
[†] The sun was adored by the Persians.
Original: Parnassian sprigs: or, poetical miscellanies, 1777, by William Fordyce Mavor 1758-1837.
Possible source: Scots Magazine 1783, ed. Boswell, has the same footnotes.
“AWAKE my Muse! assist me to pourtray
The striking beauties of the vernal Day,
The grateful season that fresh life inspires,
Wakes the dull spirits, and relumes their fires,”
Most of the section between “enamell’d lawn” and “Be calm, ye storms!” is missing (6 lines in the original as against 18 in the New-York Weekly).