Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud,
Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day?

135

NOTES.

"Her angel's face

As the great eye of Heaven shined bright."

Spenser's F. Queen, cant. iii.

Ovid. Met. iv. 228: “Mundi oculus." And Milton's Il. Pens. ver. 141: "Hide me from day's garish eye." Par. Lost, b. v. ver. 171: "Thou sun of this great world, both soul."

Ver. 126. Fierce war, and faithful love]

"Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralize my song."

eye and

Spenser's Proëme to the Fairy Queen. GRAY.

Ver. 127. And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest]
"With truth severe she temper'd partial praise."

T. Warton, vol. i. p. 32.

"And thus a cherub-voice,"

Ver. 128. In buskin'd measures move] Shakspeare. GRAY.
Ver. 131. A voice, as of the cherub-choir] Milton.
T. Warton, i. 153, who has also imitated the next line :

Ver. 133. And distant

Milton's time. GRAY.

"Blooming in immortal prime,

By gales of Eden ever fann'd."

Wart. Poems, ii. 62.

warblings lessen on my ear] The succession of poets after

Ver. 135. Fond impious] This apostrophe with its imagery seems taken from Vida :

GREEK EPIGRAM.

(See Mason's Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 45.)

Αζόμενος πολύθηρον ἐκηβόλου ἄλσος ἀνάσσας,
Τᾶς δεινᾶς τεμένη λεῖπε κυναγὲ θεᾶς,
Μοῦνοι ἄρ ̓ ἔνθα κύνων ζαθέων κλαγγεῦσιν ὑλάγμοι,
̓Ανταχεῖς Νυμφᾶν ἀγροτερῶν κελάδῳ.

FINIS.

S. Hamilton, Printer, Weybridge, Surrey.