"The glass rings low, the
charming
power that lives
Within it makes the music that it gives.
Byron
5.]
[222] Adam means "_red earth_," from which the first man was formed.
[The word _ad?m_ is said to be analogous to the Assyrian _admu_,
"child"--_i.e._ "one made" by God.--_Encycl. Bibl._, art. "Adam."]
[dc] {492} _This shape into Life_.--[_MS_.]
[223] {493}[The reference is to the _homunculi_ of the alchymists. See
Retzsch's illustrations to Goethe's _Faust_, 1834, plates 3, 4, 5.
Compare, too, _The Second Part of Faust_, act ii.
--
"The glass rings low, the
charming
power that lives
Within it makes the music that it gives.
It dims! it brightens! it will shape itself.
And see! a graceful dazzling little elf.
He lives! he moves! spruce mannikin of fire,
What more can we? what more can earth desire?"
Anster's Translation, 1886, p. 91.]
[dd] _Your Interloper_----.--[MS.]
[224] {494}[Compare _Prisoner of Chillon_, stanza ii. line 35, _Poetical
Works_, 1091, iv.
