Pastorals: Summer, or Alexis, 73 ff., with the omission of two couplets after the first.
71
From the poem beginning 'T is said that some have died for love, Ruskin evidently quoted from memory, for there are several verbal slips in the passage quoted.
72
Stanza 16, of Shenstone's twenty-sixth Elegy.
73
The Excursion, 6. 869 ff.
74
I cannot quit this subject without giving two more instances, both exquisite, of the pathetic fallacy, which I have just come upon, in Maud:—
For a great speculation had fail'd;And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair;And out he walk'd, when the wind like a broken worldling wail'd,And the flying gold of the ruin'd woodlands drove thro' the air.There has fallen a splendid tearFrom the passion-flower at the gate.The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near!"And the white rose weeps, "She is late."The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear!"And the lily whispers, "I wait." [Ruskin.]
