,
stanza liv. line 6.]

[bv] {227}

_Rose crimson, and forebade the stars_
_To sparkle in their radiant cars_.--[MS, erased.]

[269] [Compare--

"What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn."

_Lycidas,_ line 28.]

[270] [Compare--

"Was it the wind through some hollow stone?"

_Siege of Corinth,_ line 521, _Poetical Works,_
1900, iii. 471, note 1.]

[271] {230}[Compare--

"The Architect ... did essay
To extricate remembrance from the clay,
Whose minglings might confuse a Newton's thought."

_Churchill's Grave_, lines 20-23 (_vide ante_, p. 47).]

[272] [Compare--

" ... that strange shape drove suddenly
Betwixt us and the Sun."

_Ancient Mariner_, Part III. lines 175, 176.]

[273] [_Vide infra_, line 816. The raven turns into a vulture a few
lines further on. Compare--

"The scalps were in the wild dog's maw,
The hair was tangled round his jaw:
But close by the shore, on the edge of the gulf,
There sat a vulture flapping a wolf."

_Siege of Corinth_, lines 471-474, _Poetical Works_, 1900, iv. 468.]

[274] {232}[Compare--

"Her eyes were eloquent, her words would pose,
Although she told him, in good modern Greek,
With an Ionian accent, low and sweet,
That he was faint, and must not talk but eat.

"Now Juan could not understand a word,
Being no Grecian; but he had an ear,
And her voice was the warble of a bird,
So soft, so sweet, so delicately clear."

_Don Juan_, Canto II. stanza cl. line 5 to stanza cli. line 4.]

[275] {233}["By noon the battle (of Poltava) was over.... Charles had
been induced to return to the camp and rally the remainder of the army.
In spite of his wounded foot, he had to ride, lying on the neck of his
horse.... The retreat (down the Vorskla to the Dnieper) began towards
evening.... On the afternoon of July 11 the Swedes arrived at the little
town of Perevolotchna, at the mouth of the Vorskla, where there was a
ferry across the Dnieper ... the king, Mazeppa, and about 1000 men
crossed the Dnieper.... The king, with the Russian cavalry in hot
pursuit, rode as fast as he could to the Bug, where half his escourt was
captured, and he barely escaped. Thence he went to Bender, on the
Dniest