Adieu to ball, to pleasure, and to love!
"Poor Constance!" said the dancers at the ball,
"Poor Constance!"--and they danced till break of day.
[66] _Isaiah_ xiv, 8.
[67] _Isaiah_ lv, 12.
[68] _Night Thoughts_, 2. 345.
[69] Pastorals: _Summer, or Alexis_, 73 ff., with the omission of
two couplets after the first.
[70] From the poem beginning _'T is said that some have died for
love_, Ruskin evidently quoted from memory, for there are several
verbal slips in the passage quoted.
[71] Stanza 16, of Shenstone's twenty-sixth Elegy.
[72] _The Excursion_, 6. 869 ff.
[73] I cannot quit this subject without giving two more instances,
both exquisite, of the pathetic fallacy, which I have just come
upon, in Maud:--
For a great speculation had fail'd;
And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair;
And out he walk'd, when the wind like a broken worldling wail'd,
And the _flying gold of the ruin'd woodlands drove thro' the air._
There has fallen a splendid tear
From the passion-flower at the gate.
_The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near!"
And the white rose weeps, "She is late."
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear!"
And the lily whispers, "I wait.
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