[L. 34.] amer, an obvious misprint for amère. Besides, with amer the line is deficient by one foot.
[L. 44.] ils s'écrivent des fleurs. This is as happy as it is bold. As much may be said of: 'Lit en bouquet la lettre...,' l. 50. All this fragment is gracefully ingenious.
[L. 46.] sa durée. The duration of the 'flame,' of course.
V. LA RÉPUBLIQUE DES LETTRES.
[L. 1.] Il n'est que de = le mieux est de... 'Il n'est que de jouer d'adresse en ce monde,' Molière, Mal. Imag., interm, l. sc. vi. être roi, king over oneself... as is explained at l. 4. Cf. Horace, Sat. 1. iii. 132, and Epist. I. i. 106.
[L. 5.] Mon Louvre. Racan, Stances: 'Roy de passions,... Sa cabane est son Louvre...'
[L. 15.] engagé, having engaged in (as Thackeray writes: 'Mr. B.,... engaging in a labyrinth of stables,' Newcomes, i. 127), i.e. having penetrated into.
POÉSIES DIVERSES.
I. HYMNE A LA JUSTICE.
[L. 5.] Virgil, Georg. ii. 150 ff.