]
[28] {94}[Myrrha's apostrophe to the sunrise may be compared with the
famous waking vision of the "Solitary" in the Second Book of the
_Excursion_ (_Works of Wordsworth_, 1889, p.
[28] {94}[Myrrha's apostrophe to the sunrise may be compared with the
famous waking vision of the "Solitary" in the Second Book of the
_Excursion_ (_Works of Wordsworth_, 1889, p.
Byron
]
[ah] {88}
_Which thou hast lighted up at once? but leavest_
_One to grieve o'er the other's change--Zarina_. -[MS. M, erased. ]
[ai] {89} ----_natural_. --[MS. M. The first edition reads "mutual. "]
[aj] {91} _Is heavier sorrow than the wrong which_--[MS. M. erased. ]
[ak] {93} _A leech's lancet would have done as much_. --[MS. M. erased.
]
[28] {94}[Myrrha's apostrophe to the sunrise may be compared with the
famous waking vision of the "Solitary" in the Second Book of the
_Excursion_ (_Works of Wordsworth_, 1889, p. 439)--
"The appearance, instantaneously disclosed,
Was of a mighty city--boldly say
A wilderness of building, sinking far
And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth,
Far sinking into splendour--without end!
Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold,
With alabaster domes, and silver spires,
And blazing terrace upon terrace, high
Uplifted. "
But the difference, even in form, between the two passages is more
remarkable than the resemblance, and the interpretation, the moral of
Byron's vision is distinct from, if not alien to, Wordsworth's. The
"Solitary" sees all heaven opened; the revealed abode of spirits in
beatitude--a refuge and a redemption from "this low world of care;"
while Myrrha drinks in "enough of heaven," a medicament of "Sorrow and
of Love," for the invigoration of "the common, heavy, human hours" of
mortal existence. For a charge of "imitation," see _Works of Lord
Byron_, 1832, xiii. 172, note I. See, too, _Poetical Works, etc. _, 1891,
p. 271, note 2. ]
[al] {95}
_Sunrise and sunset form the epoch of_
_Sorrow and love; and they who mark them not_
{_Are fit for neither of those_
{_Can ne'er hold converse with these two_. --[MS. M. erased. ]
[am] _Of labouring wretches in alloted tasks_. --[MS.
[ah] {88}
_Which thou hast lighted up at once? but leavest_
_One to grieve o'er the other's change--Zarina_. -[MS. M, erased. ]
[ai] {89} ----_natural_. --[MS. M. The first edition reads "mutual. "]
[aj] {91} _Is heavier sorrow than the wrong which_--[MS. M. erased. ]
[ak] {93} _A leech's lancet would have done as much_. --[MS. M. erased.
]
[28] {94}[Myrrha's apostrophe to the sunrise may be compared with the
famous waking vision of the "Solitary" in the Second Book of the
_Excursion_ (_Works of Wordsworth_, 1889, p. 439)--
"The appearance, instantaneously disclosed,
Was of a mighty city--boldly say
A wilderness of building, sinking far
And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth,
Far sinking into splendour--without end!
Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold,
With alabaster domes, and silver spires,
And blazing terrace upon terrace, high
Uplifted. "
But the difference, even in form, between the two passages is more
remarkable than the resemblance, and the interpretation, the moral of
Byron's vision is distinct from, if not alien to, Wordsworth's. The
"Solitary" sees all heaven opened; the revealed abode of spirits in
beatitude--a refuge and a redemption from "this low world of care;"
while Myrrha drinks in "enough of heaven," a medicament of "Sorrow and
of Love," for the invigoration of "the common, heavy, human hours" of
mortal existence. For a charge of "imitation," see _Works of Lord
Byron_, 1832, xiii. 172, note I. See, too, _Poetical Works, etc. _, 1891,
p. 271, note 2. ]
[al] {95}
_Sunrise and sunset form the epoch of_
_Sorrow and love; and they who mark them not_
{_Are fit for neither of those_
{_Can ne'er hold converse with these two_. --[MS. M. erased. ]
[am] _Of labouring wretches in alloted tasks_. --[MS.
