To bear in heaven a shape distinct with stars.
FOOTNOTES:
[HH] Referring to the circumstance that the Danube rises in a country where the Catholic religion prevails, and flows eastwards through lands where the faith of Islam is professed.—Ed.
[HI] The Black Sea. Orpheus accompanied the Argonauts in their expedition to Colchis. In the earlier form of the legend, this lyre subdued the winds and waves, and fixed the Symplegades firm in the sea, so that the Argo passed through unharmed. (See the legends in Ovid and Virgil, and in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, 1. 23.)—Ed.
[HJ] See Paradise Lost, book iii. l. 17.—Ed.
[HK] According to the Greek astronomers, the lyre of Orpheus was placed by Zeus amongst the stars.—Ed.
For when we're there, although 'tis fair,
'Twill be another Yarrow.