"Awake and faithful to her wonted fires,"
which has but little to do with Chaucer.
VARRO.
Burns and Propertius.
—There is a strange inclination to attribute similarity of sentiment to plagiarism; as if it were almost impossible for two men of genius to hit upon the same notions, independently of each other. In Propertius (II. i. 3, 4.) we find—
Non hæc Calliope, non hæc mihi cantat Apollo,
Ingenium nobis ipsa puella facit."
In Burns we read—
"O, were I on Parnassus' hill!
Or had of Helicon my fill;