"The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung," etc. 68. _Ilissus_. This river, rising on the northern slope of Hymettus, flows through the east side of Athens. 69. _Mæander's amber waves_. Cf. Milton, _P. L._ iii. 359: "Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream;" _P. R._ iii. 288: "There Susa by Choaspes, amber stream." See also Virgil, _Geo._ iii. 520: "Purior electro campum petit amnis." Callimachus (_Cer._ 29) has [Greek: alektrinon hudôr]. 70. Ovid, _Met._ viii. 162, describes the Mæander thus: "Non secus ac liquidis Phrygiis Maeandros in arvis Ludit, et ambiguo lapsu refluitque fluitque." Cf. also Virgil's description of the Mincius (_Geo._ iii. 15): --"tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat Mincius." "The first great metropolis of Hellenic intellectual life was Miletus on the Mæander. Thales, Anaximander, Anaximines, Cadmus, Hecatæus, etc., were all Milesians" (Hales). 71 foll. Cf. Milton, _Hymn on Nativ._ 181: "The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent:" etc. 75. _Hallowed fountain_. Cf. Virgil, _Ecl._ i. 53: "fontes sacros." 76. The MS. has "Murmur'd a celestial sound." 80. _Vice that revels in her chains_. In his _Ode for Music_, 6, Gray has "Servitude that hugs her chain." 81. Hales quotes Collins, _Ode to Simplicity_: "While Rome could none esteem But Virtue's patriot theme, You lov'd her hills, and led her laureate band; But staid to sing alone To one distinguish'd throne, And turn'd thy face, and fled her alter'd land." 84. _Nature's darling_. "Shakespeare" (Gray). Cf. Cleveland, _Poems_: "Here lies within this stony shade Nature's darling; whom she made Her fairest model, her brief story, In him heaping all her glory." On _green lap_, cf. Milton, _Song on May Morning_: "The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose." 85. _Lucid Avon_. Cf. Seneca, _Thyest._ 129: "gelido flumine lucidus Alpheos." 86. _The mighty mother_. That is, Nature. Pope, in the _Dunciad_, i. 1, uses the same expression in a satirical way: "The Mighty Mother, and her Son, who brings The Smithfield Muses to the ear of kings, I sing." See also Dryden, _Georgics_, i. 466: "On the green turf thy careless limbs display, And celebrate the mighty mother's day." 87. _The dauntless child_. Cf. Horace, _Od._ iii. 4, 20: "non sine dis animosus infans." Wakefield quotes Virgil, _Ecl._ iv. 60: "Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem." Mitford points out that the identical expression occurs in Sandys's translation of Ovid, _Met._ iv. 515: "the child Stretch'd forth its little arms, and on him smil'd." See also Catullus, _In Nupt. Jun. et Manl._ 216: