Note 66 — Chapter XII
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"And Day, with his banner of radiance unfurled, Shines in through the mountainous portal that opes Sublime from that valley of bliss to the world,"
says Mr. Moore in his "Lalla Rookh," undoubtedly without any knowledge of the eastern song. His original was perhaps Campbell's
"Andes, giant of the western star, His meteor standard to the winds unfurled, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world;"
which was again, in all probability, suggested, like Gray's
"Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,"
by Milton's
"Imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind."
It is thus that the particles of poetry, like those of matter, are in eternal circulation, and forming new combinations.