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QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.
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'Star of the earth.'
Dr. Darwin.
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'The moisten'd blade—'
Walcot's beautiful Ode to the Glow-worm.
This elegy is written on the supposition that an indigent young woman had been addressed by the son of a wealthy yeoman, who, resenting his attachment, had driven him from home, and compelled him to have recourse for subsistence to the occupation of a pilot, in which, in attempting to save a vessel in distress, he perished.
The father dying, a tomb is supposed to be erected to his memory in the church-yard mentioned in Sonnet the 44th. And while a tempest is gathering, the
