[IQ] Professor Lewis Campbell sent me the following note on the Gemmi sonnet:—"Cynthia is here (1) the moon, who "sleeps with Endymion," (2) the huntress Artemis (or Diana), roaming the forest glades in pursuit of game. In imagining her as giving motion to the stars, it is possible that the poet may have had in his mind a false echo of Ovid's lines addressed to Aurora, Amores, i. l. 27—
Optavi quoties, ne nox tibi cedere vellet,
Neu fugerent vultus sidera mota tuos."
[IR] Compare the Ode to Duty, stanza 6 (vol. iii. p. 40).—Ed.
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PROCESSIONS
Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in the Vale Of Chamouny
To appease the Gods; or public thanks to yield;
Or to solicit knowledge of events,
Which in her breast Futurity concealed;