GREEK SOURCES OP SHELLEY^S ADONAIS 313 



Others bring water in golden vessels ; one laves his thigh, ('> and 

 another from behind fans with his wings the dying Adonis.^'*^ 



Stanza XIY. 



AH he had loved, and moulded into thought 



From shape, and hue, and odour, and sweet sound. 



Lamented Adonais. Morning sought 



Her eastern watch tower, and her hair, unbound, 



Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground. 



Dimmed the aerial eyes which kindle day ; 



After the melancholy thunder moaned 



Pale Ocean in unquiet slumber lay 



And the wild winds flew round, sobbing in their dismay. 



This is an instance of another device that has become conven- 

 tional in the dirge. Even inanimate nature is made to feel the spell 

 of sorrow and join in the lamentation. 



cf. Bion, 32-34. 



All the hills sing woe for Adonis and the rivers bewail the 

 sorrows of Aphrodite. The springs in the mountains also weep for 

 Adonis.^^^ 



cf. Moschus, 28-29, and Theocritus, YII, 74-75. 



(1) i. e., the death wound inflicted by the tusk of the wild boar. 



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