• Echo. Ovid, Metamorphoses , III , Addison’s Tr. :⁠— “The Nymph, when nothing could Narcissus move, Still dashed with blushes for her slighted love, Lived in the shady covert of the woods, In solitary caves and dark abodes; Where pining wandered the rejected fair, Till harassed out, and worn away with care, The sounding skeleton, of blood bereft, Besides her bones and voice had nothing left. Her bones are petrified, her voice is found In vaults, where still it doubles every sound.” ↩
• Genesis 9:13:⁠— “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.” And Campbell, “To the Rainbow”:⁠— “When o’er the green undeluged earth Heaven’s covenant thou didst shine, How came the gray old fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign.” ↩
• It is the spirit of St. Bonaventura, a Franciscan, that speaks. ↩
• St. Dominic, by whom, through the mouth of his follower, St. Francis has been eulogized. ↩
• As in Canto XI 40:⁠— “One will I speak of, for of both is spoken In praising one, whichever may be taken, Because unto one end their labors were.” ↩