In Nature's ample ruins lies entomb'd;
And Midnight, universal Midnight! reigns. 2434

[1]'Ercles' vein:' a rousing, somewhat bombastic manner of public
speaking or writing.--ee

[2]'Thrice:' alluding to the death of his wife, his daughter Mrs Temple,
and Mr Temple.--See _Life_.

[3]'Philander:' Mr Temple, his son-in-law.

[4]'Lorenzo:' not Young's son, but probably the Earl of Wharton.

[5]'Veils:' a gain, profit.--ee

[6]'Maeonides:' Homer.

[7]'His, who made:' Pope.

[8]'Cytherea:' Venus, from Cythera, one of the Ionian Islands, where she
was worshipped.

[9]'As some tall tower:' Goldsmith has borrowed this fine image in his
description of the good pastor's death, in the 'Deserted Village.'

[10]'P----:' Portland.

[11]'Didst lately borrow:' at the Duke of Norfolk's masquerade.

[12]'Narcissa:' Mrs Temple.

[13]'Nearer to the sun:' Mrs Temple died at Lyons, on her way to Nice,
accompanied by her father.

[14]Lines 270-289 paraphrase Psalms 24. Lines 270-300 provided an 'Easter
Ode' popular in early 19th-Century American musical settings.-ee

[15]'Manumit:' to free from slavery or bondage; emancipate.

[16]'Paean:' healing song; hymn.--ee

[17]'Athenian:' Socrates.

[18]'Fable fledged:' Icarus.

[19]'Glebe:' The soil or earth; land. (Archaic.)--ee

[20]'Narcissa:' Elizabeth Lee, Dr. Young's step-daughter.--ee

[21]'Lorenzo' was modelled on Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton (b. 21
December 1698; d. Poblet, Spain, 31 May 1731, aged 32), powerful
Jacobite politician, notorious libertine and rake, profligate, and
alcoholic.--ee

[22]'Charles:' Charles V.

[23]'Quotidian:' everyday; commonplace.--ee

[24]'Oracle of gems:' the Urim and Thummim.

[25]'Cockade:' an ornament, such as a rosette or knot of ribbon, usually
worn on the hat as a badge.--ee

[26]'Votary:' person bound by vows to a life of religious worship or
service.--ee

[27]'Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part:' hence Burns's famous line in his
verses to Clarinda:--
'Never met, or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.'

[28]'She:' his wife, it is supposed.

[29]'Most Christian:' Louis XIV., King of France.

[30]'Ours is the cloth,' &c.: how like the lines of Coleridge!--
'O Lady, we receive but what we give,' &c.

[31]'Towering flame,' &c.: these lines are _reproduced_ in the close of
Campbell's 'Pleasures of Hope.'

[32]'Already:' Night