NOTES ΤΟ "A GOOD MAN'S FUTURE EXISTENCE." P. 273, 1. 1, 2 As heavenly bodies through the ether move "The propagation of sound, however, requires a much denser medium than light or heat; its intensity diminishes as the rarity of the air increases, so that at a very small height above the surface of the earth the noise of the tempest ceases, and the thunder is heard no more in those boundless regions where the heavenly bodies accomplish their periods in eternal and sublime silence."-SOMERVILLE'S Connection of the Physical Sciences, 2nd ed. p. 260. P. 275, 1. 9. As fabled trees for ever blossoming. See Ariosto's description of the Garden of Logistilla, Canto x. Stanzas 62, 63. Also, Spenser's description of the "Garden of Adonis," Book iii. Canto vi. Stanza 42. INVITATION ΤΟ THE BANKS OF THE AVON. THIS is the balmy breathing-time of spring, Thy varied charms, where'er thou wind'st thy way? We cull'd these flowers at break of day, While rose-buds are opening, Is yonder water-fall !— Oh, God! how glorious is the genial ray Now seek we, my love, yon green-flourishing wood, Their leafy adornments now rustle and play With their light limbs as briskly they foot it away: We've prepared a couch for thee; Even by our chaste-eyed queen; On such a spring-embellish'd bed, Nor Galatea's bosom heaved Beneath a beech more richly leaved.— All the many-colour'd bowers We have rifled of their flowers. Sweet to us are thy beauties rare, But sweeter the scent of vernal air: |