Note 75 — Chapter I · THE TREATMENT OF NATURE IN ENGLISH CLASSICAL POETRY
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Blackmore, “Creation,” ii, 393. Cf. Wordsworth’s
The chasm of sky above my head Is heaven’s profoundest azure ... an abyss In which the everlasting stars abide.—“Excursion,” iii, 94–98.
Cf. also Dryden’s “The abyss of heaven, the court of stars” (“Works,” IV, 76).