The simple, the sincere delight;
    The habitual scene of hill and dale;
    The rural herds, the vernal gale;
    The tangled vetches’ purple bloom;
    The fragrance of the bean’s perfume,—­
    Theirs, theirs alone, who cultivate the soil,
    And drink the cup of thirst, and eat the bread of toil.[111]

  [74] Endymion, 2. 349-350.

  [75] See p. 68.

  [76] Iliad, 21. 212-360.

[77] Compare Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto i. stanza 15, and 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. [Ruskin.]

  [78] The Excursion, 4. 861-871.

  [79] Genesis xxviii, 12; xxxii, 1; xxii, 11; Joshua v, 13 ff.;
  Judges xiii, 3 ff.

  [80] Iliad, 5. 846.

  [81] Iliad, 1. 43.

  [82] Iliad, 21. 489 ff.

  [83] 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 up-gathers his spent shafts. 
  And puts them back into his golden quiver. [Ruskin.]

  [84] Iliad, 3. 365.

  [85] Iliad, 3. 406 ff.

  [86] Iliad, 4. 141. [Ruskin.]

  [87] Odyssey, 5. 63-74.

  [88] Iliad, 2. 776. [Ruskin.]

  [89] Odyssey 7. 112-132.

  [90] Odyssey, 24. 334 ff.

  [91] Odyssey, 6. 162.

  [92] Odyssey, 6. 291-292.

  [93] Odyssey, 10. 510. [Ruskin.]

  [94] Compare the passage in Dante referred to above, p. 60.
  [Ruskin.]

  [95] Iliad, 4. 482-487.

  [96] Pollards, trees polled or cut back at some height above the
  ground, producing a thick growth of young branches in a rounded
  mass.

  [97] Quoted, with some omission, from chapter 12.

  [98] Odyssey, 11. 572; 24. 13.  The couch of Ceres, with Homer’s
  usual faithfulness, is made of a ploughed field, 5. 127.
  [Ruskin.]

  [99] Odyssey, 12. 45.

  [100] Odyssey, 4. 605.

  [101] Iliad, 21. 351.

  [102] Odyssey, 5. 398, 463. [Ruskin.]

  [103] Odyssey, 12. 357. [Ruskin.]

  [104] Odyssey, 5. 481-493.

  [105] Odyssey, 9. 132, etc.  Hence Milton’s

  From haunted spring, and dale, Edged with poplar pale. [Ruskin.]

  Hymn on The Morning of Christ’s Nativity, 184-185.

  [106] Odyssey, 9. 182.

  [107] Odyssey, 10. 87-88.

  [108] Odyssey, 13. 236, etc. [Ruskin.]