The poem which immediately follows is also an Epithalamium, intended to be sung by young men and maidens, in alternate parts.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The ideal aspect of the golden morning of the world has been seized with a truer feeling in the Epithalamium of Peleus and Thetis than in the episode of the 'Pastor Aristaeus' in the Georgics.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
It is the friend to whom the Epithalamium is addressed-E. L. Lushington-"true in word and tried in deed," who asks how he is affected-if his faith be still firm, and he has still room in his heart for love?
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty