... caught from fitful breeze 1827.
[896] The genuine Orphic Literature included some Hymns, a Theogony, Oracles, Songs, and Sacred Legends, [Greek: hieroi logoi]ἱεροὶ λόγοι: but none have come down to modern times. The Orphica which have survived are spurious.—Ed.
[897] None of the fragments attributed to Musæus by the ancients—the [Greek: Chrêsmoi], [Greek: Hypothêkai], [Greek: Theogonia]Χρησμοί, Ὑποθῆκαι, Θεογονία, etc.—have survived.—Ed.
[898] Compare vol. ii. p. 163—
There is an Eminence,—of these our hills
The last that parleys with the setting sun.—Ed.
[899] Homer; so called from the fact that Mæonia in Lydia was, by some, claimed as his birth-place.—Ed.
XXVIII
CAVE OF STAFFA[900]
We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd,
Not one of us has felt the far-famed sight;
How could we feel it? each the other's blight,
Hurried and hurrying, volatile and loud.
O for those motions only that invite 5
The Ghost of Fingal to his tuneful Cave
By the breeze entered, and wave after wave
Softly embosoming the timid light!
And by one Votary who at will might stand
Gazing, and take into his mind and heart, 10
With undistracted reverence, the effect
Of those proportions where the almighty hand
That made the worlds, the sovereign Architect,
Has deigned to work as if with human Art![901]