63-4. To Raphael painting is an art that has become his nature; to Dante, poetry is an art that has become his nature. But this one time, for the woman of his love, each chooses the art in which he may have some natural skill but for which he has had no technical training. 73-108. The "artist's sorrow" as contrasted with the "man's joy" is illustrated from the experiences of Moses in conducting the children of Israel out of Egypt (_Exodus_ xvii). His achievement savors of disrelish because of the grumbling unbelief of the people, and because of the ungracious irritation into which he has been betrayed even when taxing his God-given power to the utmost in their behalf. He must hold steadily to his majesty as a prophet or he cannot control and so serve the crowd, but he covets the man's joy of doing supreme service to the woman whom he loves. 97. _Sinai-forehead's cloven brilliance._ _Exodus_ xix, 9, 16; xxxiv, 30. 101. _Jethro's daughter._ Zipporah, the wife of Moses. _Exodus_ ii, 16, 21. 121. _He who works in fresco._ The fresco painter uses large free strokes of the brush. But in order to give something distinctive to the lady of his love he will try painting tiny illuminations on the margins of her missal. 143. _Be how I speak._ That is, he usually writes dramatically, giving the experience and uttering the words of the characters he has created, such as the Arab physician, Karshish; the Greek Cleon; Norbert, the man whom the Queen loved in "In a Balcony"; the painter, Fra Lippo Lippi; the heroic pilgrim, Childe Roland; the painter, Andrea del Sarto. But now, for once, he speaks in his own person, directly to the woman he loves. 144-156. In Florence they had seen the new moon, a mere crescent over the hill Fiesole, and had watched its growth till it hung, round and full, over the church of San Miniato. Now, in London, the moon is in its last quarter. 163. _Zoroaster._ Founder of the Irano-Persian religion, the chief god of which, Varuna, was the god of light and of the illuminated night-heaven. 164. _Galileo._ A celebrated Italian astronomer (1564-1642). 165. _Dumb to Homer._ Homer celebrated the moon in the "Hymn to Diana." Keats wrote much about the moon and the hero of his poem "Endymion" was represented as in love with the moon. 172-179. See _Exodus_ xxiv. ABT VOGLER