Pal'd visag'd in the street,
To seale up this our britle birth
In earth,)
We meet with thee triumphant in our mirth."
Trinitäll Hall's Exequies.
Now, to what does Hall refer in the third stanza, in his mention of the almond-tree? Is it a classical allusion, as in the preceding stanza, or has it some reference to any botanical fact? I send the ballad, trusting that as an inedited morsel you will receive it.
Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie.
[We do not take Hall here to be the name of a man, but Trinity Hall at Cambridge.]
Footnote 2:[(return)]
The reader will recognise the classical allusion.