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_, the island where Apollo was born. PAGE 193. l. 31. _mother fair_, Leto (Latona). l. 32. _twin-sister_, Artemis (Diana). l. 40. _murmurous . . . waves._ We hear their soft breaking. PAGE 196. ll. 81-2. Cf. _Lamia_, i. 75. l. 82. _Mnemosyne_, daughter of Coelus and Terra, and mother of the Muses. Her name signifies Memory. l. 86. Cf. _Samson Agonistes_, ll. 80-2. l. 87. Cf. _Merchant of Venice_, I. i. 1-7. l. 92. _liegeless_, independent--acknowledging no allegiance. l. 93. _aspirant_, ascending. The air will not bear him up. PAGE 197. l. 98. _patient . . . moon._ Cf. i. 353, 'patient stars.' Their still, steady light. l. 113. So Apollo reaches his divinity--by knowledge which includes experience of human suffering--feeling 'the giant-agony of the world'. PAGE 198. l. 114. _gray_, hoary with antiquity. l. 128. _immortal death._ Cf. Swinburne's _Garden of Proserpine_, st. 7. Who gathers all things mortal With cold immortal hands. PAGE 199. l. 136. Filled in, in pencil, in a transcript of _Hyperion_ by Keats's friend Richard Woodhouse-- Glory dawn'd, he was a god. FOOTNOTES: [245:1] 'If any apology be thought necessary for the appearance of the unfinished poem of Hyperion, the publishers beg to state that they alone are responsible, as it was printed at their particular request, and contrary to the wish of the author. The poem was intended to have been of equal length with Endymion, but the reception given to that work discouraged the author from proceeding.' [247:1] e.g. i. 56 Knows thee not, thus afflicted, for a god i. 206 save what solemn tubes . . . gave ii. 70 that second war Not long delayed. [247:2] e.g. ii. 8 torrents hoarse 32 covert drear i. 265 season due 286 plumes immense [247:3] e.g. i. 35 How beautiful . . . self 182 While sometimes . . . wondering men ii. 116, 122 Such noise . . . pines. [247:4] e.g. ii. 79 No shape distinguishable. Cf. _Paradise Lost_, ii. 667. i. 2 breath of morn. Cf. _Paradise Lost_, iv. 641. HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK, TORONTO AND MELBOURNE * * * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: Line numbers are placed every ten lines. In the original, due to space cons
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