The good is oft interred with their bones. ED. ] [Footnote AU: See Moschus's epitaph on Bion, 1-7-- Αἴλινά μοι στοναχεῖτε νάπαι καὶ Δώρεον ὕδωρ, καὶ ποταμοὶ κλαίοιτε τὸν ἰμερόεντα Βίωνα. νῦν φυτά μοι μύρεσθε, καὶ ἄλσεα νῦν γοάοισθε. ἄνθεα νῦν στυγνοῖσιν ἀποπνείοιτε κορύμβοις. νῦν ῥόδα φοινίσσεσθε τὰ πένθιμα, νῦν ἀνεμῶναι, νῦν ὑάκινθε λάλει τὰ σα γράμματα, καὶ πλέον αἲ αἲ λάμβανε τοῖς πετάλοισι καλὸς τεθνακε μελικτάς. And compare Virgil, Ecl. v. 27, 28; Georg. I. 466-488; Georg. IV. 461-463; Catullus, Carmen XXXI., _Ad Sirmionem Peninsulam_, the three last lines. See also Theocritus, Idyll 3, and compare the philosophic myths in the stories of Orpheus, Amphion, etc.--ED.] [Footnote AV: Compare δν οἱ θεοὶ ϕιλοῦσιν, ἀποθνήσκει νέος.] Whom the gods love, die young. Menander, quoted (amongst others) by Plutarch, _Consol. ad Apollonium_, cap. 34. For other authorities, see Meineke's _Comicorum Græcorum Fragmenta_.--ED.] [Footnote AW: The hand-loom was common in many of the cottages of the country, as well as in the manufacturing towns of England and Scotland, until quite recently.--ED.] [Footnote AX: Psalm ciii. 16.--ED.] [Footnote AY: Compare λύοντες οὐκ ἤκουον.--(Æsch. _Prom_. v. 447.) Also S. Matt. xiii. 13-15-- They seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not. And Shakespeare, _Richard III_. act IV. scene iv. 1. 26-- Blind sight, dead life, poor mortal-living ghost. ED. ] [Footnote AZ: Compare _The Waggoner_, vol. iii. p. 77-- In silence deeper far than that of deepest noon! ED. ] [Footnote BA: Compare _Resolution and Independence_, stanza xiii. (vol. ii. p. 319)-- Ere he replied, a flash of mild surprise Broke from the sable orbs of his yet-vivid eyes. ED. ] [Footnote BB: Compare Burns's _Epistle to William Simpson, Ochiltree_-- Adoun some trotting burn's meander. ED. ] [Footnote BC: Compare _Midsummer Night's Dream_, act 1. scene i. l. 211-- Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. ED. ] [Footnote BD: _Sedum acre_.--ED.] [Footnote BE: _Statice armerium_.--ED.] [Footnote BF: _Convolvulus arvensis_.--ED.] [Footnote BG: Mr. H. H. Turner suggests that this line would be more naturally written, Bespake a hand of sleepy negligence. The change would have been an improvement.--ED.] [Footnote BH: "The scene of the first book of the poem is, I must own, laid in a tract of country not sufficiently near to that which soon comes into view in the second book, to agree with the fact. All that relates to Margaret, and the ruined cottage, etc., was taken from observations made in the south-west of England; and certainly it would require more than seven-league boots to stretch in one morning, from a common in Somersetshire, or Dorsetshire, to the heights of Furness Fells, and the deep valleys they embosom."--I. F.