Wordsworth,
'Or hear old Triton blow his
wreathed
horn' (Sonnet--'The World is too
much with us').
Keats
Cf. Landor's
'Hamadryad'.
l. 5. _Fauns._ The Roman name corresponding to the Greek Satyr.
l. 7. _Hermes_, or Mercury, the messenger of the Gods. He is always
represented with winged shoes, a winged helmet, and a winged staff,
bound about with living serpents.
PAGE 4. l. 15. _Tritons_, sea-gods, half-man, half-fish. Cf.
Wordsworth,
'Or hear old Triton blow his
wreathed
horn' (Sonnet--'The World is too
much with us').
l. 19. _unknown to any Muse_, beyond the imagination of any poet.
PAGE 5. l. 28. _passion new._ He has often before been to earth on
similar errands. Cf. _ever-smitten_, l. 7, also ll. 80-93.
