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Rh Linus-song, one of the early plaintive strains of Greek popular poetry, and used to be sung by corn-reapers. Other traditions represented Daphnis as beloved by a nymph who exacted from him an oath to love no one else. He fell in love with a princess, and was struck blind by the jealous nymph. Mercury, who was his father, raised him to heaven, and made a fountain spring up in the place from which he ascended. At this fountain the Sicilians offered yearly sacrifices. See, ''Comment. in Virgil. Bucol''., v. 20 and viii. 68.

Ah! where is he, who should have come.

The author's brother, William Delafield Arnold, Director of Public Instruction in the Punjab, and author of "Oakfield, or Fellowship in the East," died at Gibraltar, on his way home from India, April the 9th, 1859.

So moonlit, saw me once of yore.

See the poem, "A Summer Night," p. 280.

My brother! and thine early lot.

See Note 20.

Charlotte Brontë and Harriet Martineau.

Whose too bold dying song.

See the last lines written by Emily Brontë, in "Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell."

Goethe too had been there.

See Harzreise im Winter, in Goethe's Gedichte.