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GRAY'S POEMS.

II. 2.
In climes beyond the solar road,^{[N 1]} 54
Where shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam,
The Muse has broke the twilight gloom^{[N 2]}
To cheer the shivering native's dull abode.^{[V 1]}
And oft, beneath the od'rous shade
Of Chili's boundless forests laid,
She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, 60

^[1]Variants

↑ Var. V. 57. Buried natives, 'shivering' in the Marg. MS.
Var. V. 57. Chill abode, 'dull' in the Marg. MS.

Notes

i. 148, vi. 39. Ausonii Mosell, 269: "Luciferique parent letalia tela diei." W. Add Eurip. Phœn, 171. ed. Porson,

Εώοις ὅμοια φλεγέθων
βολαισῖν ἀελίου.

↑ V. 54. Extensive influence of poetic genius over the remotest and most uncivilized nations: its connection with liberty, and the virtues that naturally attend on it. [See the Erse, Norwegian, and Welsh fragments, the Lapland and American songs.]
"Extra anni solisque vias—" Virg. Æn. vi. 795.
"Tutta lontana dal camin del sole." Petr. Canz. 2. Gray.
"Out of the solar walk, and heaven's high way," Dryden. Threnod, August. st. 12. "Inter solisque vias, Arctosque latentes." Manil, i, 450, Pope also has this expression: "Far as the solar walk and milky way," Essay on Man, ch. i. 102. Stat. Sylv. iv. 3. 156. "Ultra sidera, flammeumque solem." Hekio relevovg. Dionys. Geogr. v. 17.
↑ V. 56. The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn." Milton. Hymn to Nativ. st. xx. W.

Footnotes to footnotes

↑ "Kinde Erato, and wanton Thalia." Turberville in the "Ventrous Lover," stanz. i: "If so Leander durst, from Abydon to Sest, To swim to Hero, whom he chose his friend above the rest." Lord Sterline in his "Third Hour," st. xiii. p. 50; "Then Pleiades, Arcturus, Orion, all." Id. p. 87: "Which carrying Orion safely to the shore." But Orion has all the syllables doubtful. See Erythræi, Ind. Virg. art. Orion. Chaucer and Surrey have Cithĕron.

[4] Var. V. 57. Buried natives, 'shivering' in the Marg. MS.
Var. V. 57. Chill abode, 'dull' in the Marg. MS.

[2] V. 54. Extensive influence of poetic genius over the remotest and most uncivilized nations: its connection with liberty, and the virtues that naturally attend on it. [See the Erse, Norwegian, and Welsh fragments, the Lapland and American songs.]
"Extra anni solisque vias—" Virg. Æn. vi. 795.
"Tutta lontana dal camin del sole." Petr. Canz. 2. Gray.
"Out of the solar walk, and heaven's high way," Dryden. Threnod, August. st. 12. "Inter solisque vias, Arctosque latentes." Manil, i, 450, Pope also has this expression: "Far as the solar walk and milky way," Essay on Man, ch. i. 102. Stat. Sylv. iv. 3. 156. "Ultra sidera, flammeumque solem." Hekio relevovg. Dionys. Geogr. v. 17.

[3] V. 56. The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn." Milton. Hymn to Nativ. st. xx. W.

[5] "Kinde Erato, and wanton Thalia." Turberville in the "Ventrous Lover," stanz. i: "If so Leander durst, from Abydon to Sest, To swim to Hero, whom he chose his friend above the rest." Lord Sterline in his "Third Hour," st. xiii. p. 50; "Then Pleiades, Arcturus, Orion, all." Id. p. 87: "Which carrying Orion safely to the shore." But Orion has all the syllables doubtful. See Erythræi, Ind. Virg. art. Orion. Chaucer and Surrey have Cithĕron.

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