IN ENGLISH LITERATURE BASED CHIEFLY ON BULFLNCH'S “ AGE OF FABLE” (1855) ACCOMPANIED BY AN INTERPRETATIVE AND ILLUSTRATIVE COMMENTARY EDITED BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BOSTON, U.S.A. PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY 1893 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & Co., Boston, U.S.A. PRESSWORK BY GINN & Co., BOSTON, U.S.A. TO THE MUSES. WHETHER on Ida's shady brow, Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the sun, that now From ancient melody have ceas’d; Whether in Heav'n ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth; Whether on crystal rocks ye rove, Beneath the bosom of the sea, Wandering in many a coral grove, Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry; How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forc'd, the notes are few! William Blake. |