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xl 25. would have told: would desire to be told (H.T.). xl 30. Till] The T.MS 1st reading. xl 32. Cp. Shelley, Alastor 77: ‘To seek strange truths in undiscovered lands’. Also Hamlet III i 79–80: ‘The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns’. xli 3. Judges xiii 20: ‘For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar.’

xli 4–8. T. said: ‘Love fears to be lost in the advance of the dead beyond the Survivor’ (Knowles). xli 4. flies] goes HnMS, T.MS. xli 5. Cp. The Tempest I ii 405: ‘something rich and strange’. xli 6. links: Turner (p. 115) relates these lines to Hallam, On Cicero: ‘Of that immense chain of mental successions, which extends from the cradle to the death-bed, how few links … are visible to any other person?’ He also noted in Crabbe’s The Parting Hour ‘strange’, ‘change’, ‘links’, ‘bind’.

xli 8 ^ 9] How far, how far gone upward now? Too far for me to catch the while The sweetness of thy proper smile Through those new splendours of thy brow! HnMS deleted Cp. the third line with ‘Thy sweetness from its proper place’, lxxxiii 6. xli 10. I could] God would HnMS 1st reading.

xli 11. Cp. The Two Voices 347–9, MS (pp. 118–20): ‘Life and half-life, a million grades’. xli 16. ‘The eternal miseries of the Inferno’ (T). H.T. comments: ‘forgotten, and consigned to everlasting nothingness’, referring to Inferno iii 25–51. Cp. Measure for Measure III i 126–7: ‘those that lawless and incertain thoughts / Imagine howling’; and Hamlet V i 235–6: ‘A minist’ring angel shall my sister be, / When thou liest howling.’

Also To – with [The Palace of Art] 15–16: ‘Lie / Howling in outer darkness.’ xli 19. which] that HnMS, T.MS 1st reading. xli 23. secular to-be: ‘Æons of the future’ (T.). xlii 4–8. T. said: ‘Sympathy of the teacher & taught’ (Knowles). xlii 10. spirit’s inner] spirit through its HnMS. xliii T.MS and L.MS show that this originally consisted of ll. 1–8 plus a version of the last stanza (below). On the arguments during the Renaissance as to whether or not the dead ‘sleep’, see Helen Gardner, Donne’s Divine Poems (1952), pp. xliii–xlvi.

There was ample scriptural authority for the belief, e.g. 1 Thessalonians iv 13–15. But it still excited controversy, e.g. O.

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