psychological standpoint. "The ghastly bed of Sin" (lines 182, 183) may be a reminiscence of the death-bed of Lord Falkland (English Bards, etc., lines 680-686; Poetical Works, 1898, i. 351, note 2).] [20] {22} [Compare— [20] "And yet I could not die." Ancient Mariner, Part IV. line 262.] [21] {23} [Compare— [21] "I wept not; so all stone I felt within." Dante's Inferno, xxxiii. 47 (Cary's translation).] [22] {24}[Compare "Song by Glycine"— [22] "A sunny shaft did I behold, From sky to earth it slanted; And poised therein a bird so bold— Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted," etc. Zapolya, by S. T. Coleridge, act ii. sc. 1.] [23] [Compare— [23] "When Ruth was left half desolate,