s to feel through the
eyes, imagining everything in pictures. Marlowe's _Hero and Leander_ is
more energetic in its sensuality, more complicated in its intellectual
energy than this languid story, which pictures always a happiness that
would perish if the desire to which it offers so many roses lost its
indolence and its softness. There is no passion in the pleasure he has
set amid perilous seas, for he would have us understand that there alone
could the war-worn and the sea-worn man find dateless leisure and
unrepining peace.

October, 1902.

Footnotes:

[1] I had forgotten Falstaff, who is an episode in a chronicle play.

[2] Rose Kavanagh, the poet, wrote to her religious adviser from, I
think, Leitrim, where she lived, and asked him to get her the works of
Mazzini. He replied, 'You must mean Manzone.'

[3] I have heard him say more than once, 'I will not say our people know
good from bad, but I will say that they don't hate the good when it is
pointed out to them, as a great many people do in England.'

[4] A small political organiser told me once that he and a certain
friend got together somewhere in Tipperary a great meeting of farmers
for O'Leary on his coming out of prison, and O'Leary had said at it:
'The landlords gave us some few leaders, and I like them for that, and
the artisans have given us great numbers of good patriots, and so I like
them best: but you I do not like at all, for you have never given us
anyone.' I have known but one that had his moral courage, and that was a
woman with beauty to give her courage and self-possession.

[5] _Poems of Spenser: Selected and with an Introduction by W. B.
Yeats._ (T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, N.D.)

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