canto v. stanza 2. In the first instance, the river-spirit is

accurately the Homeric god, only Homer would have believed in it,--Scott did not; at least not altogether.

[60] Compare the exquisite lines of Longfellow on the sunset in the Golden Legend:--

"The day is done, and slowly from the scene The stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, And puts them back into his golden quiver."

[61] Iliad iv. 141.

[62] Iliad ii. 776.

[63] Odyssey, x. 510.

[64] Compare the passage in Dante referred to above, Chap. XII. § 6.

[65] Odyssey, xi. 571. xxiv. 13. The couch of Ceres, with Homer's usual faithfulness, is made of a _ploughed_ field, v. 127.

[66] Odyssey, v. 398.

[67] Odyssey, xii. 357.

[68] Odyssey, ix. 132. &c. Hence Milton's

"From haunted spring, and dale, Edged with poplar pale."

[69] Odyssey, xiii. 236. &c.

[70] Educated, as we shall see hereafter, first in this school, Turner gave the hackneyed composition a strange power and freshness, in his Glaucus and Scylla.