L._ i. 517: "the Delphian cliff." Both Shakes. and
Milton prefer the mediaeval form _Delphos_ to the more usual
_Delphi_. Delphi was at the foot of the southern uplands of Parnassus
which end "in a precipitous cliff, 2000 feet high, rising to a double
peak named the Phaedriades, from their glittering appearance as they
faced the rays of the sun" (Smith's _Anc. Geog._).

67. _Isles_, etc. Cf. Byron:

"The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung," etc.

68. _Ilissus_. This river, rising on the northern slope of Hymettus,
flows through the east side of Athens.

69. _Maeander's amber waves_. Cf. Milton, _P. L._ iii. 359: "Rolls
o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream;" _P. R._ iii. 288: "There Susa
by Choaspes, amber stream." See also Virgil, _Geo._ iii. 520: "Purior
electro campum petit amnis." Callimachus (_Cer._ 29) has [Greek:
alektrinon hudor].

70. Ovid, _Met._ viii. 162, describes the Maeander thus:

"Non secus ac liquidis Phrygiis Maeandros in arvis
Ludit, et ambiguo lapsu refluitque fluitque."

Cf. also Virgil's description of the Mincius (_Geo._ iii. 15):

--"tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat
Mincius."

"The first great metropolis of Hellenic intellectual life was Miletus
on the Maeander. Thales, Anaximander, Anaximines, Cadmus, Hecataeus,
etc., were all Milesians" (Hales).

71 foll. Cf. Milton, _Hymn on Nativ._ 181:

"The lonely mountains o'er,
And the resounding shore,
A voice of weeping heard and loud lament;
From haunted spring and dale,
Edged with poplar pale,
The parting Genius is with sighing sent:" etc.

75. _Hallowed fountain_. Cf. Virgil, _Ecl._ i. 53: "fontes sacros."

76. The MS. has "Murmur'd a celestial sound."

80. _Vice that revels in her chains_. In his _Ode for Music_, 6, Gray
has "Servitude that hugs her chain."

81. Hales quotes Collins, _Ode to Simplicity_:

"While Rome could none esteem
But Virtue's patriot theme,
You lov'd her hills, and led her laureate band;
But staid to sing alone
To one distinguish'd throne,
And turn'd thy face, and fled her alter'd land."

84. _Nature's darling_. "Shakespeare" (Gray). Cf. Cleveland, _Poems_:

"Here lies within this stony shade
Nature's darling; whom she made
Her fairest model, her brief story,
In him heaping all her glory."

On _green lap_, cf. Milton, _Song on May Morning_: