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An essay on the origin of language, based on modern researches, and especially on the works of M. Renan

Note 111 — Chapter IV · ONOMATOPŒIA.[103]

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Bunsen, Outlines, ii. 82. The poet Shelley implied the same thought in Alastor:

“I wait breath, Great Parent, that my song May modulate with motions of the air, And murmurs of the forest and the sea, And voice of living beings, and woven hymns Of night and day, and the deep heart of man.”

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