PAGE 186. l. 339. Cf. i. 328-35, ii. 96.
ll. 346-56. As the silver wings of dawn preceded Hyperion's rising so now a silver light heralds his approach.
PAGE 187. l. 357. See how the light breaks in with this line.
l. 366. _and made it terrible._ There is no joy in the light which reveals such terrors.
PAGE 188. l. 374. _Memnon's image._ Memnon was a famous king of Egypt who was killed in the Trojan war. His people erected a wonderful statue to his memory, which uttered a melodious sound at dawn, when the sun fell on it. At sunset it uttered a sad sound.
l. 375. _dusking East._ Since the light fades first from the eastern sky.
BOOK III.
PAGE 191. l. 9. _bewildered shores._ The attribute of the wanderer transferred to the shore. Cf. _Nightingale_, ll. 14, 67.
l. 10. _Delphic._ At Delphi worship was given to Apollo, the inventor and god of music.
PAGE 192. l. 12. _Dorian._ There were several 'modes' in Greek music, of which the chief were Dorian, Phrygian, and Lydian. Each was supposed to possess certain definite ethical characteristics. Dorian music was martial and manly. Cf. _Paradise Lost_, i. 549-53.
l. 13. _Father of all verse._ Apollo, the god of light and song.
ll. 18-19. _Let the red . . . well._ Cf. _Nightingale_, st. 2.
l. 19. _faint-lipp'd._ Cf. ii. 270, 'mouthed shell.'
l. 23. _Cyclades._ Islands in the Aegean sea, so called because they surrounded Delos in a circle.
l. 24. _Delos_, the island where Apollo was born.
PAGE 193. l. 31. _mother fair_, Leto (Latona).
l. 32. _twin-sister_, Artemis (Diana).
l. 40. _murmurous . . . waves._ We hear their soft breaking.
PAGE 196. ll. 81-2. Cf. _Lamia_, i. 75.
l. 82. _Mnemosyne_, daughter of Coelus and Terra, and mother of the Muses. Her name signifies Memory.
l. 86. Cf. _Samson Agonistes_, ll. 80-2.
l. 87. Cf. _Merchant of Venice_, I. i. 1-7.
l. 92. _liegeless_, independent--acknowledging no allegiance.
l. 93. _aspirant_, ascending. The air will not bear him up.
PAGE 197. l. 98. _patient . . . moon._ Cf. i. 353, 'patient stars.' Their still, steady light.
l. 113. So Apollo reaches his divinity--by knowledge which includes experience of human suffering--feeling 'the giant-agony of the world'.
PAGE 198. l. 114. _gray_, hoary with antiquity.
l. 128. _immortal death._ Cf. Swinburne's _Garden of Proserpine_, st. 7.
Who gathers all things mortal
With cold immortal hands.
PAGE 199. l. 136. Filled in, in pencil, in a transcript of _Hyperion_ by Keats's friend Richard Woodhouse--
Glory dawn'd, he was a god.
FOOTNOTES:
[245:1] 'If any apology be thought necessary for the appearance of the unfinished poem of Hyperion, the publishers beg to state that they alone are responsible, as it was printed at their particular request, and contrary to the wish of the author. The poem was intended to have been of equal length with Endymion, but the reception given to that work discouraged the author from proceeding.'
[247:1]
e.g. i. 56 Knows thee not, thus afflicted, for a god
i. 206 save what solemn tubes . . . gave
