Those who died of love dwelt in the 'Lugentes Campi,' in the outer regions of Orcus. _A knot of spiry trees ..._ The passage in Pliny is-- Sunt hodie ex adverso Iliensium urbis juxta Hellespontum in Protesilai sepulcro arbores, quae omnibus aevis cum in tantum accrevere ut Ilium aspiciant, inarescunt rursusque adolescunt.--_Hist. Nat._ 16, 44 (88). Opposite to Ilium and close to the Hellespont there are to this day trees growing on Protesilaus' tomb, which, in every generation, as soon as they have grown high enough to see Ilium, wither away and again shoot up. Cf. _Anthologia Graeca_ Pal. vii. 141. σᾶμα δέ τοι πτελέῃσι συηρεφὲς ἀμφικομεῦσι Νύμφαι ἀπεχθομένης Ἰλίου ἀντιπέρας, δένδρεα δυσμήνιτα, καὶ ἤν ποτε τεῖχος ἴδωσι Τρώϊον αὐαλέην φυλλοχοεῦντι κόμην. But right opposite hated Ilium the nymphs shroud thy tomb with a roof of elms; trees blighting with a lasting wrath, and if ever they see the walls of Troy, they shed their withering leaves. And again, vii. 385-- καρφοῦται πετάλων κόσμον ἀναινόμενα. They wither, disowning the glory of leaves. For a legend showing a similar sympathy between nature and man, see _Æneid_, iii. 22." As Wordsworth tells us in the Fenwick note to _Laodamia_, that "it cost him more trouble than almost anything of equal length he had ever written," and as there are many incomplete passages and suppressed readings among his MSS., the two following stanzas--intended at first to follow the second stanza in the poem as it now stands--may be given in a supplementary note.--ED. That rapture failing, the distracted Queen Knelt, and embraced the Statue of the God: "Mighty the boon I ask, but Earth has seen Effects as awful from thy gracious nod; All-ruling Jove, unbind the mortal chain, Nor let the force of prayer be spent in vain!" Round the high-seated Temple a soft breeze Along the columns sighed--all else was still-- Mute, vacant as the face of summer seas, No sign accorded of a favouring will. Dejected she withdraws--her palace-gate Enters--and, traversing a room of state, O terror! etc. etc. VARIANTS: [Footnote 1: 1827. ... before the rising morn Performed, my slaughtered Lord have I required; And in thick darkness, amid shades forlorn, Him of the infernal Gods have I desired: 1815. ] [Footnote 2: 1820. ... did ... 1815. ] [Footnote 3: 1820. That ... 1815. ] [Footnote 4: 1845. That thou should'st cheat ... 1815. ] [Footnote 5: 1836. Know, virtue were not virtue if the joys 1815. ] [Footnote 6: 1820. The fervor--not the impotence of love. 1815. ] [Footnote 7: 1827. ... in beauty's bloom? 1815. ] [Footnote 8: 1827.