ctly by means of a story
or narrative. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is probably the best-known
allegory. What others can you name?

67. Craigie-burn and Devon were favorite Scotch streams.

71. Ayr: a river in Scotland. This whole region is full of associations
with Burns. Near it he was born and there is the Auld Brig of Doon of
Tam o' Shanter fame. Near the river is a Burns monument. Doon: a river
of Scotland 30 miles long and running through wild and picturesque
country. Burns has made it famous.

91-92. The unpleasant facts of Burns's life, due to weakness of
character, should not be allowed to destroy our appreciation of what he
accomplished when he was his better self.

99. Magdalen. See John 8:3-11 and many other instances in the Gospels.

103. The mournful Tuscan: Dante, who wrote "The Divine Comedy."

THE HERO

1. Bayard, Pierre Terrail (1473-1524): a French soldier who, on account
of his heroism, piety, and magnanimity was called "le chevalier sans noun
et sans reproche," the fearless and faultless knight. By his
contemporaries he was more often called "le bon chevalier," the good
knight.

6. Zutphen: an old town in Holland, which was often besieged, especially
during the wars of freedom waged by the Dutch. The most celebtated fight
under its walls was in September, 1586, when Sir Philip Sidney was
mortally wounded.

12. See John 16: 21.

28. Sidney. See note on line 6 and Proem, note on line 4.

31. Cyllenian ranges: Mount Cyllene, in southern Greece, the fabled
birthplace of Hermes.

36. Suliote. See Fitz-Greene Halleck, "Marco Bozzaris," note on line 13

42. The reference is to Samuel G. Howe, who fought as a young man for
the independence of Greece.

46. Albanian: pertaining to Albania, a province of western Turkey.

78. Cadmus: mythological king of Phoenicia; was regarded as the
introducer of the alphabet from Phoenicia into Greece.

86. Lancelot stands for most of us as the example of a brave knight
whose life was ruined by a great weakness. Malory writes of him in "Mort
d'Arthur," and Tennyson has made him well known to us.

THE ETERNAL GOODNESS

24. See John 19:23 and Matthew 9: 20-22.

36. After David had suffered, he wrote the greatest of the Psalms which
are attributed to him. The idea of righteous judgement is to be found
throughout them all, but seems especially strong in 9 and 147.

54. Compare Tennyson's Crossing the Bar.

THE PIPES