Theodric.
Campbell thinks it necessary to explain this latter epithet in a note: "The moss of Switzerland, as well as that of the Tyrol, is remarkable for a bright smoothness approaching to the appearance of enamel." And yet was no one, or both, of the following passages floating in his brain when his pen traced the line?
"O'er the smooth enamell'd green
Where no print of sleep hath been."
Milton, Arcades.
"Here blushing Flora paints th' enamell'd ground."
Pope, Winsdor Forest.
W. T. M.
Hong Kong.