3. "But she is vanish'd to her shady home
Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
Weeps in a _midnight_ made of her own hair."
Hood, _Hero and Leander_, cxvi.
"Within the _midnight_ of her hair,
Half-hidden in its deepest deeps," &c.
Barry Cornwall, _The Pearl Wearer_.
"But, rising up,
Robed in the long _night_ of her deep hair, so
To the open window moved."
Tennyson, _Princess_, p. 89.
4. "He who for love hath undergone
The worst that can befall,
Is happier thousandfold than one
Who never loved at all."
M. Milnes, _To Myrzha, on returning_.
"I hold it true, whate'er befall,
I feel it when I sorrow most,--
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
Tennyson, _In Memoriam_, xxvii.
5. Boileau, speaking of himself, when set in his youth to study the law,
says that his family--
"... Palit, et vit en frémissant
Dans la poudre du greffe un poëte naissant."