The poetry ...

of a singularly refined character, ...

full of ...

pretensions to mysticism," etc.] [Footnote 21: _Iran und Turan_, 1889; _Vom Pontus bis zum Indus_, 1890; _Vom Aral bis zur Gang[=a]_ 1892.] [Footnote 22: Or "all-possessing" [Whitney].

The metre of the translation retains the number of feet in the original.
Four [later added] stanzas are here omitted.] [Footnote 23: So P.W.possibly "by reason of [the sun's] rays"; _i.e._, the stars fear the sun as thieves fear light.
For 'Heaven,' here and below, see the third chapter.] [Footnote 24: Yoked only by him; literally "self-yoked." Seven is used in the Rig Veda in the general sense of "many," as in Shakespeare's "a vile thief this seven years."] [Footnote 25: _jet[=a]ram [=a]par[=a]jitam_.] [Footnote 26: The rain, see next note.] [Footnote 27: After this stanza two interpolated stanzas are here omitted.