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This section's title "The Fire Sermon" alludes to Buddha's [[Pāli Canon Aditta-pariyaya-sutta:  The Fire Sermon]].

Lines 173-174 "the last fingers of leaf / Clutch and sink into the wet bank" allude to Ophelia's death in [[Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' Act 4 Scene 7]]

Line 176 "Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song" alludes to [[Spenser’s ''Prothalamion'']].