Ll. 6, 7. _Et qui pense... Il pense..._ This is a feature of old syntax.
Instances of the construction occur in the seventeenth century: 'Qui
dit prude, _il_ dit laide,' LA FONTAINE. Sometimes the repetition may be
made with a demonstrative pronoun: 'Qui ne mourrait pour conserver son
honneur, celui-là serait infâme, PASCAL.
L. 8. _un durable sillon._ Cf. '... having driven his plough through a
morass which must close again behind it.' Froude, _Oceana_, iii.
Ll. 29-34. Alpheus, in Elis (Peloponnesus), 'that renowned flood, so
often sung, Divine Alpheus, who, by secret sluice, Stole under seas to
meet his Arethuse.'--Milton, _Arcades_, 29 ff. The nymph Arethusa, one
of Diana's nymphs, was by the goddess changed into a fountain, to save
her from the pursuit of Alpheus, a hunter, while Alpheus himself became
a river. Enna is a town in Sicily. The fact that the river Alpheus ran
in a subterranean channel at several points in its course probably gave
rise to the myth.
L. 34. _amer_, an obvious misprint for _amère_. Besides, with _amer_ the
line is deficient by one foot.
L. 44. _ils s'écrivent des fleurs._ This is as happy as it is bold.
As much may be said of: 'Lit en bouquet la lettre...,' l. 50. All this
fragment is gracefully ingenious.