Ah! if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches! A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens, and famous chivalry palpably before him. He hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country, in the Notch Mountains, [485] for example, which converts the mountains into an Æolian harp, [486] and this supernatural tiralira restores to him the Dorian [487] mythology, Apollo, [488] Diana, [489] and all divine hunters and huntresses. Can a musical note be so lofty, so haughtily beautiful! To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal;
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