52. Gray refers to Cowley, _Brutus_:
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One would have thought 't had heard the morning crow,Or seen her well-appointed star.Come marching up the eastern hill afar." The following variations on 52 and 53 are found in the MS.: Till fierce Hyperion from afarPours on their scatter'd rear, |Hurls at " flying " | his glittering shafts of war." o'er " scatter'd " |" " " shadowy " |Till " " " " from farHyperion hurls around his, etc. The accent of _Hyperion_ is properly on the penult, which is long inquantity, but the English poets, with rare exceptions, have thrown itback upon the antepenult. It is thus in the six instances in whichShakes. uses the word: e.g. _Hamlet_, iii. 4: "Hyperion's curls; thefront of Jove himself." The word does not occur in Milton. It iscorrectly accented by Drummond (of Hawthornden), _Wand. Muses_: "That Hyperion far beyond his bedDoth see our lions ramp, our roses spread;" by West, _Pindar's Ol._ viii. 22: "Then Hyperion's son, pure fount of day,Did to his children the strange tale reveal;" also by Akenside, and by the author of the old play _Fuimus Troes_(A.D. 1633): "Blow, gentle Africus,Play on our poops when Hyperion's sonShall couch in west." Hyperion was a Titan, the father of Helios (the Sun), Selene (theMoon), and Eos (the Dawn). He was represented with the attributes ofbeauty and splendor afterwards ascribed to Apollo. His "glitteringshafts" are of course the sunbeams, the "lucida tela diei" ofLucretius. Cf. a very beautiful description of the dawn in Lowell's_Above and Below_: "'Tis from these heights alone your eyesThe advancing spears of day can see,Which o'er the eastern hill-tops rise,To break your long captivity."
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