Note 2 — BOOKS BY EDWARD CARPENTER
Reading edition
See Shelley’s Witch of Atlas, stanza xviii (quoted below, p. 18). There are several other references to “Gold and Blood,” which show what importance he ascribed to the association; as for instance:
Queen Mab, section 4, line 195:
“when his doom is sealed in gold and blood”
Triumph of Life, line 287:
“and spread the plague of gold and blood abroad”
Charles the First, line 61:
“he looks elate, drunken with blood and gold”
Hellas, line 246:
“blood is the seed of gold.”