Who is she. — This verse is supposed to be spoken by the admiring ladies. The paragraph mark in the English Version should rather be at the beginning of the next verse. (Comp. —
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun,” &c — Romeo and Juliet.)
But the poet heightens his figure by combining both the great lights of heaven with the dawn, and putting the praise in the mouth of “the meaner beauties of the night,” who feel their own inferiority “when the moon doth rise,” still more before the “all paling” sun.