352 Albert S. Cook, 



of the ' pale-dead e3'es ' of horses. Cf. Keats, Ode to a Nightingale 

 28 : ' leaden-eyed despair.' 



prophetic cell. Pausanias (9. 39) thus describes the cave of 

 Trophonius ; ' Inside is a cavity in the earth, not natural, but arti- 

 ficial, and built with great skill. And the shape of this cavit}' re- 

 sembles that of an oven, the breadth of which (measured diametri- 

 cally) may be considered to be about four cubits, and the depth 

 not more than eight cubits. There are no steps to the bottom ; but 

 when any one descends to Trophonius, thc}^ furnish him with a 

 narrow and light ladder.' 



181. lonely mountains. Elsewhere mountains have a 'barren 

 breast ' {L'Al. 73), are ' cold ' (Soim. 18. 2), or. ' wild ' {Pass. 51). 

 One might compare Judg. 11. 37, 38 (cf. Jer. 9. 10). Mountains are 

 associated with deserts in Heb. 11. 88; see also Rev. 6. 15, 16. 



182. resounding shore. Cf. ' sounding shores ' Lye. 154. 



183. A voice of weeping. From Matt. 2. 18 (Jer. 31. 15); cf. 

 Ps. 6. 8 (see Milton's trans. j ; Jer. 9. 19, etc. 



loud lament. Also P.L. 8. 244; cf. 10. 845. 



184. haunted. Frequented ; cf. Z,^y^/. 130, ' haunted stream.' See 

 also P.L. 3. 27; 4. 708; 7. 330; II P. 138, etc. Thus Homer, //. 

 20. 8—9 : ' nor any nymph of all that haunt [I'^iovtra) fair thickets, 

 and springs of rivers, and grass}^ water-meadows.' Cf. Com. 119—121 : 



By dimpled l^rook and fountain-brim, 



The wood-n3aTiphs, decked with daisies trim, 



Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. 



See art. Nymphs in Osgood, The Classical Mythology of Miltott's 

 English Poems {Yale Studies in English, No. 8). 



dale. The passages quoted in the following note rather suggest 

 ' mead ' or ' meadow.' 



185. Edged with poplar pale. The Greek poets associate pop- 

 lars with springs. Thus Homer, Od. 6. 291—2 : ' Near our road 3^ou 

 will see a stately grove of poplar trees, belonging to Athene ; in 

 it a fountain flows, and round it is a meadow.' Similarl}^ Od. 5. 

 63-4, 70-71; 9. 140-141; 17. 204-211. See Theocritus, Id. 7. 

 135—7 : ' And high above our heads waved many a poplar, many 

 an elm-tree, while close at hand the sacred water from the nymphs' 

 own cave welled forth with murmurs musical.' And add Euripides, 

 Hipp. 208-211 (tr. Gilbert Murray): 



Oh for a deep and dewy spring. 



With runlets cold to draw and drink ! 

 And a great meadow blossoming. 



