II.

Ll. 1-8. Imitated from Horace, Od. iii. 4.

L. 13. Seul Elliptical: 'when I am alone.'

L. 19. distraits, diverted from their uneasy, anxious thoughts.

Ll. 21-28. Imitated from Horace, Od. III. iv.

Ll. 23. Catile. Catilus and Tibur are one and the same place, now Tivoli (l. 26): Moenia Catile in Horace.

L. 24. Blandusie. Horace, Od. iii. 13, celebrates its fountain.

L. 26. Tivoli, i.e. Tibur, where Horace's villa stood.

L. 27. Horace, Od. II. xix.

L. 35. Theocritus, Id. iii. 12. Bruyante abeille is of course a nominative in apposition to Je. So with rose, &c.

L. 36. les délices, the sweets.

Ll. 37. Anthol. v. 84.

L. 38. étamine. A. Chénier seems to have used étamine, properly the stamen or male organ of flowers, for the pollen or fecundating dust which is secreted by the stamen. Cf. note to p. 27, l. 30.

L. 47. Anacreon, Od. xx. The thought, as a lover's wish, is hackneyed.

L. 61. périsse l'amant que satisfait la crainte! The meaning, not very obvious, but explained by the following lines, is: Beshrew that lover who is content to frighten his mistress into fidelity.