25 DECEMBER 1926, Page 15

LITERARY COINCIDENCES

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I write to call your attention to an odd coincidence in Gray's Elegy and Byron's Childe Harold. The first line of the fifth verse of Gray's Elegy runs :-

• " The breezy call of incense-breathing morn," While in Childe Harold the first two lines of the ninety-eighth stanza of Canto HI run :--

" The morn is up again, the dewy morn,

With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom."

Le Marion', T'andoeuvres, Geneva, Switzerland.