—Can any of your readers tell me what he supposes Campbell to mean when he makes the sister, in delivering her curse on her brother, say—
"Go where the havoc of your kerne
Shall float as high as mountain fern!"
Does havoc float? Does mountain fern float? What is the effect of either floating high? The lines are in "The Flower of Love lies Bleeding."
Also can any one say who or what this is?
"Fly, like the moon-eyed herald of dismay
Chac'd on his night-steed by the star of day!"
The lines are near the end of The Pleasures of Hope.
W. W.
Cambridge.