[14] Inserted in 1842. [15] Thus in 1833, followed by the note:— Or the maid-mother by a crucifix, In yellow pastures sunny-warm, Beneath branch-work of costly sardonyx, Sat smiling, babe in arm. When I first conceived the plan of the Palace of Art, I intended to have introduced both sculptures and paintings into it; but it is the most difficult of all things to _devise_ a statue in verse. Judge whether I have succeeded in the statues of Elijah and Olympias. One was the Tishbite whom the raven fed, As when he stood on Carmel steeps, With one arm stretched out bare, and mocked and said, “Come cry aloud-he sleeps”. Tall, eager, lean and strong, his cloak wind-borne Behind, his forehead heavenly bright From the clear marble pouring glorious scorn, Lit as with inner light. One, was Olympias: the floating snake Rolled round her ancles, round her waist Knotted, and folded once about her neck, Her perfect lips to taste. Round by the shoulder moved: she seeming blythe Declined her head: on every side The dragon’s curves melted and mingled with The woman’s youthful pride Of rounded limbs. Or Venus in a snowy shell alone, Deep-shadowed in the glassy brine, Moonlike glowed double on the blue, and shone A naked shape divine. [16] Inserted in 1842. [17] Thus in 1833:— Or that deep-wounded child of Pendragon Mid misty woods on sloping greens Dozed in the valley of Avilion, Tended by crowned queens. The present reading is that of 1842. The reference is, of course, to King Arthur, the supposed son of Uther Pendragon. In 1833 the following stanza, excised in 1842, followed:— Or blue-eyed Kriemhilt from a craggy hold, Athwart the light-green rows of vine, Poured blazing hoards of Nibelungen gold, Down to the gulfy Rhine. [18] Inserted in 1842 thus:— Or hollowing one hand against his ear, To listen for a footfall, ere he saw The wood-nymph, stay’d the Tuscan king to hear Of wisdom and of law. List a footfall, 1843. Ausonian for Tuscan, 1850. The reference is to Egeria and Numa Pompilius. _Cf._ Juvenal, iii., 11-18:— Hic ubi nocturnæ Numa constituebat amicæ ... In vallem Ægeriæ descendimus et speluneas Dissimiles veris. and the beautiful passage in Byron’s _Childe Harold_, iv., st. cxv.-cxix. [19] This is Camadev or Camadeo, the Cupid or God of Love of the Hindu mythology. [20] This picture of Europa seems to have been suggested by Moschus, _Idyll_, ii., 121-5:— ἡ δ’ αρ’ ἐφεζομένη Ζηνὸς βόεοις ἐπὶ νώτόις τῇ μεν ἔχεν ταύρου δολιχὸν κέρας, ἐν χερὶ δ’ ἄλλῃ εἴρυε πορφυρεας κόλπου πτύχας. “Then, seated on the back of the divine bull, with one hand did she grasp the bull’s long horn and with the other she was catching up the purple folds of her garment, and the robe on her shoulders was swelled out.” See, too, the beautiful picture of the same scene in Achilles Tatius, _Clitophon and Leucippe_, lib. i., _ad init._; and in Politian’s finely picturesque poem. [21] In 1833 thus:—