s: multiplied divinities, in later times, still bore the name of the


s: Urgeri mole hac, ingentemque insuper Ætnam


s: Impositam, ruptis flammam expirare caminis;


s: Et fessum quoties mutat latus, intre mere omnem


s: north-eastern direction; there the Devas did not sustain defeat.


s: This direction is _aparájitá_, _i.e._ unconquerable. Thence one


s: The debts here spoken of are a man’s religious obligations to the


s: geographers. Hládiní means the Gladdener, Pávaní the Purifier,


s: Naliní the Lotus-Clad, and Suchakshu the Fair-eyed.


s: Homer ascribes to the Trojans of the heroic age.” SCHLEGEL.


s: word is probably derived from _ap_, water, and _sri_, to go, and


s: originally personifications of the vapours which are attracted by


s: distilled and prepared from rice, sugar-cane, the palm tree, and


s: antiquity is evident from one of her names _Kshírábdhi-tanayá_,


s: mythical images. In the great Mother of the Gods is, perhaps,


s: earth. But such ancient myths are difficult to interpret with


s: MULLER, _History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 530_.


s: strange to our poet. This is the only instance I remember. The


s: repetition of single lines is common enough.” SCHLEGEL.


s: Persians called the Greeks also Yavans.” SCHLEGEL.


s: frequently gained the victory.” SCHLEGEL.


s: For a full account of the early contests between the Bráhmans and


s: actors in these occurences, still alive in Rama’s time.”


s: _Śákhantaram_ as Yájanádiná rakshántaram, ‘one who by sacrificing


s: rejected him from human society.” GORRESIO.


s: southern stars, a sort of new Ursa. Von Schlegel thinks that this


s: confounded with the modern Pushkara in Ajmere.


s: “In the mythical story related in this and the following Canto we


s: LXI. Her proper name was _Satyavatí_ (Truthful); the patronymic,


s: Kauśikí was preserved by the river into which she is said to have


s: _Kossounos_ of Arrian. But each author has fallen into the same


s: into the Ganges. To be consistent with geography it should be


s: written: Erannoboam sive Sonum, Condochatem (Gandakí), Cosoagum.”


s: That owed his nurture to the blue-eyed maid,


s: But from the teeming furrow took his birth,


s: The mighty offspring of the foodful earth.”


s: traditional genealogies of other nations.” GORRESIO.


s: immortal, the head and tail retained their separate existence and


s: eclipses; the first especially by endeavouring to swallow the sun


s: throwing a small parcel of the offering, _Ghee_, or rice, or the


s: like, into the open air at the back of the house.


s: remainder of their days in holy meditation in the forest:


s: “For such through ages in their life’s decline


s: incarnation of Vishṇu. The whole neighbourhood is Ráma’s country.


s: devotee, with naked feet, treads full of pious awe.” _Calcutta


s: “Ἵπποι δ’ Αἰακίδαο, μάχης ἀπάνευθεν ἐότες,


s: Κλᾶιον, ἐπειδὴ πρῶτα πυθέσθην ἡνιόχοιο


s: Ἐν κονίνσι πεσόντος ὑφ’ Ἕκτορος ἀνδροφόνοιο”


s: “Ancient poesy frequently associated nature with the joys and


s: My soul shall thine keep company to heaven:


s: Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast.”


s: WILSON’S _Vishṇu Puráṇa_, Vol. I. p. 421. DR. HALL’S Edition. The


s: impediments, however, we should be able to identify at least


s: mountains and rivers, to a much greater extent than is now


s: practicable, if our maps were not so miserably defective in their


s: oriental scholars. It may be doubted if any of them have been


s: conversant with the spoken language of the country. They have,


s: consequently, put down names at random, according to their own


s: inaccurate appreciation of sounds carelessly, vulgarly, and


s: corruptly uttered; and their maps of India are crowded with


s: appellations which bear no similitude whatever either to past or


s: present denominations. We need not wonder that we cannot discover


s: extreme indifference to accuracy in nomenclature, and of an


s: incorrectness in estimating sounds, which is, in some degree,


s: For further information regarding the road from Ayodhyá to


s: Schlegel’s which gives the tears of joy to the courtiers.


s: delightful shade, how charming does it appear!”


s: _  370 Vidyadharis_, Spirits of Air, sylphs.


s: interpolation. It cannot be the work of Válmíki.


s: Carey and Marshman translate, “the one-tailed city.”


s: exclude them all from his edition. These lines are manifestly


s: _  407 Kálántakayamopamam_, resembling Yáma the destroyer.


s: produced from Brahmá’s hair: here, according to the commentator


s: words of the text “thy relations and mine.” This is quite


s: latifolia, a tree from whose blossoms a spirit is extracted.


s: instead of Manu and Analá. I see that Professor Roth s.v. adduces


s: _Márgaṇapriyám_, _Anúpám_, _Subhagám_, _Bhásím iti_, _Prádhá


s: _  507 Aśoka_ is compounded of _a_ not and _śoka_ grief.


s: probably personifications of the aborigines of India.


s: The first time I saw the Asoc in flower was on the hill where the


s: festival. Before proceeding to the temple the Mahratta women


s: influence of pleasing excitement, especially when after the long


s: corresponding passage in the Bengal recension:—


s: “Oh come risplendono in questa stagione di primavera i vitici, le


s: speech of the greatly terrified and unequalled monkey king, the


s: magnanimous Hanumán then went where (stood) the very mighty Ráma


s: Like Milton’s good and bad angels “as they please


s: They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size


s: Assume as likes them best, condense or rare.”


s: vast bead-roll of cases. In the same spirit Homer has his eternal


s: To a reader of sensibility, such recurrences wear an air of


s: capacity of universal sovereignty. See Book I. p. 2, and Note 3.


s: “His owne two hands the holy knots did knit


s: His owne two hands, for such a turn most fit,


s: The housling fire did kindle and provide.”


s: “The text has [Sanskrit text] which signifies literally ‘the lost


s: Whose infant steps amid the thickets strayed


s: Where the reeds wave over the holy sod.”


s: possesses extraordinary power and wisdom, sends his messengers


s: through both worlds, numbers the very winkings of men’s eyes,


s: punishes transgressors whom he seizes with his deadly noose, and


s: pardons the sins of those who are penitent. In later mythology he


s: Should combat, and their jarring spheres compound.”


s: “And blessed the hand that gave so dear a death.”


s: earth where, by his virtuous administration he rendered all his


s: tortoise, and the rabbit or hare, wise legislators declare lawful


s: Vimalabodha reads Aśvatarí in the nominative case, and explains,


s: Aśvatarí is the sun, and as the sun with his rays brings back the


s: endeavouring to swallow the sun and moon.


s: (luglio-agosto) primo della stagione piovosa, in cui dilagano le


s: Indras.” DE GUBERNATIS, _Zoological Mythology_, Vol. I, p. 418.


s: Malaya is a group of mountains situated exactly in that southern


s: part of India where Ráma now was, while Mályavat is placed to the


s: killed by Vishṇu in his incarnation of the Man-Lion _Narasinha_.


s: ungainliness of form, strength in hugging with the fore paws or


s: arms, the faculty of climbing, shortness of tail(?), sensuality,


s: capacity of instruction in dancing and in music, are all


s: continents into which the world is divided, and in the centre of


s: Jambudwípa is the golden mountain Meru 84,000 yojans high, and


s: called Mahendra Malay or hills of Mahendra.


s: dissolution of the universe caused by Brahmá’s sleep, seized and


s: carried off the Vedas. Vishṇu slew him and recovered the sacred


s: north of it must be in darkness, whilst those on the south of it


s: must be in light: north and south being relative, not absolute,


s: appellations are variously given by different authorities.


s: cavern of Hanumant and his companions, who have lost their way in


s: Brahmans being purified by sitting on it.


s: demon of darkness and drought supposed to take possession of the


s: typifying the rising, culmination, and setting of the sun.


s: repetition, overloaded description, and long and useless speeches


s: whole Cantos also occur. I have omitted none of the action of the


s: “At his command the uprooted hills retired


s: Each to his place, they heard his voice and went


s: ingenious, and interesting though too fanciful _Zoological


s: Mythology_. Hanumán here represents the sun entering into and


s: escaping from a cloud. The biblical Jonah, according to him,


s: chariot was inside the palace or the palace inside the chariot.


s: blasphemous impieties. When his pious son Prahlada praised Vishṇu


s: incarnation of the man-lion and tore the tyrant to pieces.


s: allusion to writing has hitherto occurred in the poem.


s: incessu patuit dea” may refer to the same belief.


s: “This comparison of a great lake to the sky and of celestial to


s: grand and splendid lakes of India covered with lotus blossoms,


s: light of the moon the inner hue of the lotus, to the splendour of


s: flowers, to the cloud the weeds that float upon the water &c.”


s: “Let Sparta’s treasures be this hour restored,


s: So hope success, or dread the dire effect,”


s: Rávaṇ, and then, after telling his mother what has happened, he


s: bloodshed until milder methods have been tried in vain.


s: irritated Nandíśvara cursed him and foretold his destruction by


s: great-grandfathers of an individual or the progenitors of mankind


s: portion is all that I have attempted here.


s: this wondrous tale of Ráma unwearied in action shall be absolved


s: Válmíki made shall obtain all their desires and all their prayers


s: episodes to explain casual allusions or isolated incidents which


s: occur in it. Thus the early history of the giant Rávaṇa and his


s: family fills nearly forty Chapters, and we have a full account of


s: expeditions of the Greeks against Troy; and the latter chapters


s: country between Benares and Oude.… Kośala is a name variously


s: applied. Its earliest and most celebrated application is to the


s: country on the banks of the Sarayú, the kingdom of Ráma, of which


s: Mútibas.” WILSON’S _Vishṇu Puráṇa_ Vol. II. 170.


s: tota contegunt.” Isidore calls them Panotii.


s: jacentes resupini, umbrâ se pedum protegant.”


s: _Vishṇu Puráṇa_, Vol. II. 158. Dr. Hall observes: “In the


s: _Mahábhárata Sabhá-parwan_, 1105 and 1108, notice is taken of the


s: Gonds. So Ptolemy places the Pulindas along the banks of the


s: Narmadá, to the frontiers of Larice, the Látá or Lár of the


s: Hindus,—Khandesh and part of Gujerat.” WILSON’S _Vishṇu Puráṇa_,


s: Dr. Hall observes that “in the Bengal recension of the _Rámáyaṇa_


s: _Rámáyaṇa_ K.-k., XLIII., speaks of the northern Pulindas.”


s: their being usually named in concurrence with the north-western


s: tribes, Kámbojas, Daradas, Páradas, Báhlíkas, Śakas &c., in the


s: Rámáyaṇa. Mahábhárata, Puránas, Manu, and in various poems and


s: plays.” WILSON’S _Vishṇu Puráṇa_ Vol. II. p. 181, Note.


s: faithfully devoted to him; or the porter of Brahmá, named Jaya.


s: As the _Emperor Moth_ sat one evening in May,


s: Fanned by numberless wings in the moon's silver ray,


s: While around him the zephyrs breathed sweetest perfume,


s: Thus he spoke to his dwarf with the _Ragged white plume_:


s: "That vain Butterfly's Ball, I hear, was most splendid,


s: And, as the world says, very fully attended,


s: Though she never asked us, but assigned as a cause,


s: We were all much too heavy to gallope and waltz.


s: What impertinence this, want of grace to ascribe


s: To the Lord of the whole Lepidopterous tribe;


s: I too'll give a ball, and such folks to chastise,


s: I'll not be at home to these pert butterflies.


s: Bid the _Empress_ come hither, and we'll talk about


s: What arrangements to make for a capital rout."


s: The Empress obeyed her lord's summons with speed,


s: And proceeded her visiting tablets to read,


s: That those of her subjects, whose homage was booked


s: In that coveted record, might not be o'erlooked.


s: Then the _Bufftip_ began to write each moth a card,


s: Having one for herself just by way of reward.


s: "First ask," says the Emperor, "the _Glory of Kent_,


s: On having much beauty my mind is quite bent;


s: The _Belle_, too, _of Brixton_, the _Marvel du Jour_,


s: And the _Peach-blossom_ moth you'll invite, I am sure;


s: The _Sphinx_ too, shall come, who makes riddles so well,


s: And the _Gipsey_ be ready our fortunes to tell;


s: _Mother Shipton_ shall chap'rone the lovely _Black I_,


s: And those awkward Greek girls, _Lambda_, _Gamma_,


s: _Hebrew Character_, too, who for routs has a passion;


s: And I'll ask Mrs. _Gothic_, though she's out of fashion,


s: For I love my old friends, and had rather that they


s: Should partake of our feast, than the idle and gay,


s: Who flutter about without object or reason,


s: Just live for an hour, and last but a season."


s: How little, alas! do great moths bear in mind,


s: That their tenure of life is of just the same kind.


s: "You're right," said the Empress, "and truly 'twere shabby,


s: T'exclude from our party poor old Mrs. _Tabby_,


s: And the _Rustics_ I'll ask, though not one has a gown


s: In which to appear, save of black, grey, or brown;


s: And some of them go, too, so feathered and flounced,


s: That the _Coxcomb_ called _Prominent_, on them pronounced


s: A sentence of censure, quite just, but so tart,


s: That I felt, when I heard it, quite cut to the heart.


s: But now to proceed, Sire, the _Leopard_ I vote,


s: Be razed from our list, with that ugly old _Goat_,


s: Who in youth made such terrible use of his jaws,


s: That I dread, I confess, e'en the sight of his claws;


s: And as to his muscles, 'tis said that when counted,


s: To four thousand and just forty-one they amounted;


s: Of Musk too, I'm told, he sheds such perfume,


s: That wherever he goes, he fills the whole room.


s: Exclude him we will, with the old _Dromedary_,


s: The _Elephant_ cunning, and _Fox_ too, so wary,


s: That though I don't know it for certain, I'm told


s: They cheat at Ecarté, like Hermes of old.


s: The _Ghost_ and _Death's head_, and that terrible host,


s: Would but scare all the guests"--Here the Emperor lost,


s: For a moment, his patience, and cried to his spouse,


s: "If thus you proceed, ma'am, my anger you'll rouse.


s: A figure of death, or his cross-bones at least,


s: To remind all our guests of the limited span


s: That to moths is allotted, as well as to man,


s: And how e'en in the midst of enjoyment's gay hour,


s: We are still in death's stern and inflexible power.


s: So let them have cards, and I'll go and prepare


s: For receiving our friends, the best possible fare."


s: The Monarch then went with the _Eyed Hawk_, his scout,


s: To search for a spot fit for giving his rout;


s: A green ring he found, the work of a fairy,


s: And thinking it looked both commodious and airy,


s: He called to him _Brimstone_ to measure the ground,


s: For another _Geometra_ could not be found;


s: Of this workman he knew the correctness full well,


s: What he wrought was as nice as if done by a spell.


s: The spot was judged proper, and erected in haste


s: Were some well fashioned rooms, which displayed his good taste.


s: _Carpet Moths_ were appointed to stencil the floor,


s: The _Clothes Moths_ with gossamer covered the door;


s: _Mahogany_ and _Wainscot_ were neither deficient


s: In offering their aid, which proved most efficient,


s: While _Veneers_, both rosy and yellow, were able


s: T'improve, by their help, the decayed supper table.


s: For the crockery, _China Mark_ promised to strive,


s: And _Galleria_ offered to steal from a hive,


s: Profusion of honey; _Pinguinalis_ brought butter,


s: And with wax _Cereana_ came all in a flutter.


s: These presents the Emperor gladly accepted,


s: Save Galleria's theft, which with scorn was rejected,


s: So little do moths of great minds patronise


s: The base who by fraud or extortion would rise.


s: In the mean time the Empress her _Swifts_ had sent out


s: To deliver the cards for this elegant rout.


s: _Puss_ sent an excuse, with the _Kitten_ engaged,


s: And the _Eggar_, poor lady, was highly enraged


s: That her numerous offspring requiring her care,


s: The _Black Raven Feather_, and sweet _Angle Shades_,


s: Had promised that day with the _Tussock_ to dine,


s: But when they received their dread sovereign's command,


s: They yielded to custom's imperious demand,


s: For moths with us mortals in this do agree,


s: That all parties must bow to a monarch's decree.


s: Lady _Lappet_ being ill, the _Poplar Lutestring_


s: The two Misses _Nonpareil_ promised to bring;


s: And the _Spectacle Moth_, too near sighted to go,


s: Sent his ward the _Bright Eye_, with the _Flame Furbelow_,


s: Whose young lover, the beautiful, brave _Unicorn_,


s: Had been shot in a duel with the _Red Striped Hawthorn_.


s: Not quite fit to appear, the gallant _Swallow Tail_


s: At the doctors with anger continued to rail,


s: He having been lamed by the awkward _Bulrush_,


s: To the serious alarm of the fair _Maiden's Blush_.


s: The day now arrived, and at nine of the night,


s: The glow-worm being hired the highways to light,


s: The guests 'gan to assemble, and each was announced


s: By the _Herald_, who loudly their names all pronounced.


s: Introduced a long train of her large family;


s: Some in _Muslin_, some _Satin_, were chastely arrayed,


s: Unnoticed was suffered the evening to pass.


s: From the banks of the Niger the _Blackamoor_ brought


s: A fat _Moor_, who presented a _Tyger_ just caught;


s: An old _Gentlewoman_ had promised to bring


s: A musical Miss, who divinely could sing,


s: But whose fair head, no larger than that of a _Dot_,


s: Was filled with the thought of a _True Lover's Knot_;


s: So she hem'd and she ha'd, then unblushingly told,


s: How she caught as she came a most violent cold,


s: And felt such oppression and pain in her throat,


s: That she scarcely dared venture to utter a note;


s: And thus with most Misses of human creation,


s: How often their colds are but mere affectation.


s: The dancing began, and soft music was heard,


s: Provided, 'twas said, by the sweet _Humming Bird_.


s: Old Colonel _Gold Spangle_, his dancing days past,


s: Volunteered with good humour the dances to cast;


s: To the forward Miss _Portland_ Captain _Christian_ he brought,


s: Who, aided by Mars, the young lady had caught,


s: For moths, like their betters, as I have been told,


s: Are mightily taken with scarlet and gold.


s: The _Foresters_ danced, arrayed all in green,


s: With the _Clear Wings_, whose beauty gave life to the scene;


s: The _Mouse_, quite enamoured, entreated in vain


s: The hand of the lovely _Pease Blossom_ to gain,


s: And the _Satellite_, though he till now had sat still,


s: Made up to the _Seraph_ to dance a quadrille.


s: The _Quakers_, who ne'er had been seen at a ball,


s: With the _Coronets_ galloped around the great hall,


s: And the sad _Mourning Widow_, her weeds put away,


s: While the _Magpie_ obtained universal applause,


s: By fluttering a hornpipe upon his hind claws.


s: The _Vapourer_ came not, but he was no loss,


s: For wherever he went he was stupid and cross;


s: And his wife, an old dowdy, bereft of all wings,


s: Was unfit to appear as th' associate of Kings;


s: The _Dagger_ came armed, and looked all around,


s: But his charmer, Miss _Snout_, was no where to be found,


s: For she had not been asked, and the _Figure of Eight_,


s: With his cousin, the _Sprawler_, joined the party so late,


s: That morn was forth peeping, and the dancing had done,


s: When _Spring Usher_ announced the young beautiful _Nun_.


s: The _Gnomana_ now indexed the hour of four,


s: The guests were assembled around the great door,


s: Which the _Lacqueys_ threw open, and each in his rank


s: Found a seat for himself, and they all ate and drank


s: With a relish that would not disgrace the Guildhall,


s: (To compare for a moment such great things with small,)


s: Where London's Lord Mayor and his Aldermen deign


s: To feast upon turtle, and tipple champagne.


s: Old _Drinker_, the butler, of wine served the best,


s: And a _Footman_ was placed at the chair of each guest,


s: In orange, in yellow, or black coats dressed out,


s: For their liveries, 'twas said, were all made for the rout,


s: The Emperor began mirth and glee to inspire,


s: When a loud cry was heard, of "the chimney's on fire;"


s: All started in fear from the table to learn


s: If the house was in flames, or likely to burn;


s: Each snatched up a candle, so left the room dark,


s: And the moment was seized by the _Chamomile Shark_


s: To plunder the table. The _Yorkshire Magpie_


s: Strove also with his share of booty to fly,


s: But was stopped by the _Lacqueys_, who then in a trice


s: Demolished themselves every thing that was nice.


s: 'Midst this glorious confusion a mischievous _Pug_


s: Contrived of the claret to empty each jug,


s: But not unperceived by young _Miss Exclamation_,


s: Who by her loud cries caused immense consternation.


s: Meanwhile came the _Sweep_, with the _Chimney Sweep's Boy_,


s: And two other _Assistants_, who ran to employ


s: Every means they could think of to put out the flame,


s: In which they succeeded, and found that the blame


s: Belonged to the _Housewife_, who had thrown in the fire


s: Some grease, which occasioned the accident dire.


s: The guests in a panic had now left alone


s: The Emperor and Empress their ills to bemoan.


s: Said the Empress, "My dear, let us never more try


s: With the Butterflies' party so vainly to vie;


s: For what with the heat, the fatigue, and the fright,


s: I never before passed so trying a night;


s: Of such a soirée, for the wealth of a nation."


s: "With you I agree," the sage Emperor replied,


s: Who deemed it a lesson to cure them of pride;


s: "And I trust that the thread of our lives will spin out,


s: Alas! we must own we were never designed


s: To flit in the sunshine, or soar on the wind;


s: Nature's changeless decree has allotted its share


s: To each beast of the field, to each bird of the air,


s: To each reptile that creeps, to each insect that flies;


s: And who dares to rebel against nature but dies?"


s: _Saturnia pavonia minor._ The caterpillars of these moths are


s: of a beautiful green, with blue spots, and after living


s: together for three weeks, they separate, and disperse


s: themselves in all directions. The Chrysalis is covered with a


s: strongly glutinous matter, which resists not only weather, but


s: the perforation of other insects. The Pavonia Major is the


s: largest of European moths, and, according to Latreille, a


s: manufactory of silk from the cocoons has been established in


s: _Pterophorus pentadactylus._ Large White Plume. By some called


s: Ragged Robin. The moths of this genus have their wings divided,


s: or formed of feathers united at the base. The chrysalis is


s: The attitude of the caterpillars, resembling that of the


s: Sphinx, has given this name to the tribe. The moths of the


s: Sphinx have the peculiar power of erecting their wings, but


s: even these cannot make them meet over the back as butterflies


s: do. Their chief food is the potatoe plant.


s: _Liparis dispar._--The caterpillars of the Gipsey are very


s: destructive to fruit trees, over which they wander during the


s: day, but at night retire into a web like that of a spider. In


s: _Noctua mi._--Called Shipton, from the profile of an old woman


s: _Noctua I niger._--The Roman character, I, is marked on the


s: _Noctua lambda_, _Noctua gamma_, _Noctua chi._--So


s: named from the spots on their wings resembling these Greek


s: characters. The caterpillars of the Noctua gamma, in 1735,


s: infected the whole of France, and devoured the productions of


s: the kitchen gardens. The common people supposed them to be


s: poisonous, and consequently the use of herbs in making soups


s: _Pyralis genus._--The Tabby is often found in the tea chests in


s: the East India warehouses, where it commits great ravages. It


s: never is met with, however, in a chest that is not cracked,


s: _Noctua nigra._--Black rustic. _Noctua lævis._--Grey rustic.


s: _Noctua obsoletissima._--Brown rustic. _Noctua phæa._--Feathered


s: rustic. _Noctua tinea._--Flounced rustic.


s: _Notodonta camelina._--The singular name of Coxcomb Prominent,


s: was given to this moth from the crest on its thorax, which


s: resembles that of a cock. The specific name was bestowed in


s: consequence of two lobes on its upper wings, which it raises


s: _Zeuzera æsculus._--The caterpillar feeds on the wood of apple


s: trees, but the moth is often found in great abundance in St.


s: James's Park; sixty were gathered there in one morning, but the


s: greater number had been half devoured by the birds.


s: _Cossus ligniperda._--The caterpillar lives in the interior of


s: trees, and has, according to Lyonet, 4041 muscles. It is three


s: years before the insect attains its perfect state. The


s: caterpillar emits a smell much resembling that of musk, and Ray


s: and Linnæus both supposed it to be the Cossus mentioned by Pliny,


s: Later writers have, however, for many reasons, ascribed this to


s: _Notodonta dromedarius._--This Notodonta is called Dromedary,


s: from having two crests, similar to humps, on its thorax.


s: _Sphinx elpenor._--The caterpillars of the Elephant feed on the


s: plant called Ladies' Bedstraw, (_Galium palustre_), from which


s: they are often shaken by the wind into the water. When this


s: happens, they dexterously turn themselves on their backs, make


s: head and tail meet, and float in this posture till they can


s: contrive to save themselves by clinging to some part of the


s: plant. They possess the power of drawing the head and three


s: first joints within the body at pleasure. The moth flies very


s: _Lasiocampa rubi._--The Fox moth is chiefly found on heaths and


s: commons, and lives in the caterpillar state all the winter.


s: _Hepialus humuli._--The male moth is of a beautiful and


s: brilliant white, but the female is yellow. It is fond of feeding


s: on the roots of grass, and from having been often found in


s: church-yards, the tradition has arisen that it inhabits those


s: spots only. The caterpillar is very destructive to hops, by


s: _Sphinx atropos._--This is called the Death's Head moth from the


s: the largest of the Sphinx tribe, and is vulgarly regarded as the


s: messenger of pestilence and death. When touched it utters a


s: plaintive cry, like that of a bat or mouse. Reaumur says, that a


s: whole convent in France was thrown into consternation, by one of


s: these moths flying into the dormitory. It frequently robs hives,


s: and Huber states, that its cry renders the bees motionless. It


s: breaks from its chrysalis between four and seven in the


s: afternoon, as the Hawk moth of the Lime always appears at noon,


s: and that of the Evening Primrose at sunrise.


s: _Sphinx cellata._--The Eyed-hawk moth flies very swiftly by


s: night, and its caterpillar is very beautiful.


s: _Geometra cratægaria._--The Brimstone lays eggs twice in the


s: This genus is so called from the peculiar manner in which the


s: caterpillar moves; it brings the feet of both extremities close


s: together, and the intermediate part of the body rises like an


s: arch, giving it the appearance of measuring the distance it


s: performs. It is said to possess great muscular powers, for it


s: will attach its posterior feet to the twig of a tree, and erect


s: the rest of its body in a vertical position for hours without


s: _Tinea genus._--These are the moths which cause so much


s: destruction to furs, and other articles of clothing. They lay


s: their eggs on the substances which serve them for food. The most


s: effectual method of keeping them away is to pack the materials


s: in a well-closed tin box, and enclose with them a tallow candle.


s: _Crambus carnea._--Rosy veneer. _Crambus arborum._--Yellow satin


s: They are chiefly found on grasses in flower, and always settled


s: _Botys genus._--Called China mark, from the resemblance of the


s: spots on the wings to those on old China.


s: _Galleria alvearia._--The caterpillar lives on honey.


s: _Aglossa pinguinalis._--The food of the caterpillar consists of


s: fat substances, such as butter or lard, in which it will suffer


s: itself to be completely enveloped without injury. It is


s: sometimes said to get into the human stomach, when it causes


s: _Galleria cereana._--The caterpillar feeds on wax, but for want


s: of this food will eat paper, wafers, &c.


s: _Hepialus genus._--The gold Swift sometimes moves slowly through


s: others, vacillates like the pendulum of a clock, and again


s: altering its motion, darts about with great rapidity.


s: _Cerura vinula._--The caterpillar of the Puss has the power of


s: stretching out, or pulling back its head at will, according to


s: its apprehension of danger. Its hinder extremity never touches


s: the ground, but is furnished with two tubes, through which the


s: insect ejects a thin liquor at its pursuers. When near the


s: change into the pupa state, however, the tubes dry up, and it


s: loses this faculty. More male than female moths are to be found,


s: _Lasiocampa quercus._--The Eggar has been known to remain


s: _Noctua meticulosa._--The chrysalis of the Angle-shades is of a


s: deep red colour, with two sharp points at the tail. The


s: caterpillar is of a fine transparent green.


s: _Laria genus._--The Tussock feeds on white thorn, and is the


s: _Gastropacha quercifolia._--The caterpillar of this moth also


s: lives through the winter, a fact recently discovered by Mr.


s: Samouelle, from whose obliging communications many of these


s: _Noctua fraxini._--The Nonpareils are very scarce in England,


s: are very large moths, and have blue under-wings.


s: _Noctua triplacea._--Named Spectacle moth, from an appearance


s: _Noctua conigera._--Brown line. Bright eye.


s: _Sphinx convolvuli._--The unicorn caterpillar is difficult to


s: find, from its habit of hiding itself in the ground, and only


s: appearing on the surface in the evening to feed on the lesser


s: bindweed, at which time it is frequently sought by collectors


s: with a candle and lanthorn. The Pupa has an enormous rostrum,


s: longer than the insect, and very thick, probably to contain the


s: _Tinea bistriga._--These are beautiful minute insects, and are


s: _Geometra sambucaria._--This is found in lanes, and is


s: remarkable for the elegance of its flight.


s: _Noctua typhæ._--The caterpillar feeds on the pith of the


s: _Geometra punctaria._--The Maiden's Blush flies in the shady


s: _Erminea padi._--This insect destroys the white thorn hedges in


s: the neighbourhood of London. About three years back, a dress was


s: woven by the caterpillars for the Queen of Bavaria. A model was


s: made of some stiff material, and the caterpillars placed on it;


s: they covered it with their web, and thus produced a garment


s: _Arctia salicis._--The Satin moth not only itself wears the


s: appearance of this substance, but covers its eggs with a web


s: _Geometra papilio naria._-- _Noctua perla._-- _Geometra


s: omicromaria._--These moths in colour resemble the stones, &c.,


s: after which they are named. The Emerald becomes white with


s: keeping, and the others turn to a dirty yellow.


s: _Noctua chrysitis._--The upper wings of the moth are of a


s: light brown, and streaked across with two bands resembling


s: _Noctua Ethiops._--So named from its dark appearance.


s: _Noctua Maura._--The Moor has a broad body, and is constantly


s: found under the arches of Westminster Bridge.


s: _Arctia caja._--The caterpillar mixes its own hair with its web.


s: _Noctua brassica._--The caterpillar is very destructive to


s: _Noctua persicaria._--This moth is remarkable for a white spot


s: on its wing, and the caterpillar feeds on the flower from which


s: _Noctua erica._--The appearance of a true lover's knot is found


s: _Macroglossum stellatarum._--It makes a humming noise with the


s: vibration of its wings. It is found from March till September,


s: hovering over geraniums, and constantly appears at two o'clock


s: _Noctua bractea._--This is a rare insect, and receives its name


s: from the large spot in each upper wing, resembling burnished


s: _Noctua precox._--This moth was named after the Duchess of


s: _Tortrix genus._--The genus receives its name from the faculty


s: possessed by the caterpillar, of rolling or twisting the leaves


s: of the plants it inhabits, into a tubular form. The Christian,


s: or Christianern, is found in the chalk pits of Kent, resting on


s: cinque-foil. The upper wings are of a bright yellow, streaked


s: _Ino statices._--The body and wings are of a beautiful metallic


s: green, and they chiefly inhabit meadows.


s: _Ægeria genus._--They receive their name from the transparency


s: of their wings. They are principally found on the wood of the


s: _Noctua tragopogonus._--Called Mouse from its colour.


s: _Noctua delphinii._--The Pease blossom is a very beautiful, but


s: rare moth. It feeds on the wild larkspur, and lies in the pupa


s: state from August till the June following.


s: _Noctua satellitia._--The caterpillars of the Satellite are


s: great enemies to white thorn, currant, and gooseberry bushes,


s: _Geometra hexapterata._--The Seraph, or Seraphim, has two little


s: _Noctua cerasi, &c._--These moths are remarkably neat in


s: _Noctua ligustri._--The Coronets are so called from their


s: of their antennae, which several times exceed the length of


s: _Abraxas grossulariata._--The destructive caterpillar of this


s: moth lives in gardens, through the winter, and feeds on the buds


s: as they begin to open. When about to change to the chrysalis


s: state, they suspend themselves by the tail.


s: _Bombyx antiqua._--The female moth is destitute of wings, and


s: the male is constantly seen, slowly fluttering through the


s: _Noctua psi._--The Dagger is produced from a light green egg,


s: and is named from the mark on its wings.


s: _Herminia rostralis._--Called Snout, from the form of the palpi,


s: _Bombyx cæruleocephala._--It owes its English name to the figure


s: _Bombyx cassinea._--The Sprawler is found on palings, closely


s: adhering to the wood, and rests with its anterior feet widely


s: _Geometra leucophearia._--This is named Spring Usher from making


s: _Tortrix gnomana._--Dial moth. It flies from side to side like


s: _Lasiocampa neustria, &c._--The caterpillars live in a common


s: web, and are striped with white, blue, and red, whence, by the


s: French naturalists, they are called _livrée_. They are


s: polyphagus, _i. e._ they eat every thing. They lay their eggs


s: in close, compact rings, round the twigs of trees.


s: _Odenensis potatoria._--The caterpillar of this moth


s: (according to Godart) after drinking, lifts up its head like a


s: _Lithosia aurantia_ (orange)--_Lithosia luterella_ (yellow)


s: _Noctua chamomilla._--The moth attaches itself close to the


s: edges of wood, as near its own colour as possible.


s: _Abraxas ulmaria._--Found abundantly in Yorkshire.


s: _Geometra chærophyllata._--All the moths called Chimney-sweeps


s: are black, but the Chimney-sweep's boy is smaller than the


s: others, and easily distinguished by the glossiness of its


s: _Geometra thymiaria._--All collectors will recognise this as a


s: very probable accident from the quantity of grease natural to


s: moths, and which often destroys their finest specimens. The


s: localities of these and other insects, with more particulars,


s: may be found ably described in Mr. Samouelle's valuable work


s: Of all his books, there is not one which, as a whole, can be


s: irregular faculty, less governable than the reason and of swifter


s: justification for lyric poetry. At work in Ogilvie’s thought is a


s: therefore, for the irregularity of the ode, for the “enthusiasm,


s: representation of “the internal movements of the mind warmed by


s: To follow the argument is to realize that his conception of the


s: imagination as a judicious faculty operating independently of the


s: Much of the time Ogilvie is occupied with quite familiar and


s: preferring the former because through it the mind is immediately


s: While Ogilvie is not a major critic a good part of his charm and


s: associationist, and that he is less interested in the creative


s: functioning of the poet’s imagination than in the precepts of a


s: (Glasgow, 1855), Vol. IV. For a list of Ogilvie’s works consult


s: The Right Honourable JAMES Lord DESKFOORD.


s: Printed for G. KEITH, at the _Bible-and-Crown_


s: Although the facsimile includes this full Table of Contents,


s: only the introductory section-- the Essay on Lyric Poetry--


s: LETTER I.                                 Page iii


s: LETTER II.                                   xxxix


s: The Third Chapter of HABAKKUK paraphrased


s: encroachments, and from leading to extremes which are the more


s: Quintilian speaking of Eloquence) tam nos juvaret, nisi quæ


s: videamur. Institut. Orat. Lib. XI. c. 16.]


s: adolescentibus creditur. Lib. II. c. 1.]


s: δυο και αυται φυσικαι. Το μιμεισθαι συμφυτον τοις ανθρωποις, &c.


s: Και Ἁρμονια και ρυθμος εξ αρχης οἱ πεφυκοτες προς αυτα μαλιστα


s: κατα μικρον προαγοντες εγεινησαν την Ποιησιν‧ Arist. Poet. c. 4.]


s: particularly discussed in Dacier’s Remarks on the Poeticks of


s: αυλησει προσχρωμενοι. Plat. de Legib. Lib. XI.]


s: You will no doubt be of opinion, my Lord, upon reflecting on this


s: effusions, either descriptive of the scenes of pastoral life, or


s: _Musa dedit fidibus Divos, puerosque Divorum_,


s: The Muse to nobler subjects tun’d her lyre,


s: Gods, and the sons of Gods her song inspire.  FRANCIS.


s: virorum fortium res preclare gestas Hymnis ac Pæanibus, ad templa


s: mortales invitarent. Strad. Prolus. 4 Poet.]


s: _Publica privatis secernere, sacra prophanis;


s: Concubitu prohibere vago, dare jura maritis,


s: The wandering joys of lawless love supprest,


s: With equal rites the wedded couple blest,


s: Plann’d future towns, and instituted laws, &c.  FRANCIS.


s: _undetermined_. There are indeed particular circumstances, by the


s: representation du vrai reel, qui rarement seroit agreable; elle


s: nations, the inland country continued to be laid waste by the


s: introduced into Greece the principles of philosophy. Tatian will


s: Orat. con. Graec. While Laertius (who certainly might have been


s: ηρξε φιλοσοφια ἡς και αυτο το ονομα την Βαρβαρον απεστραπτε


s: Ην ποτε χρονος οὑτος εν ὡ ἁμα παντ’ επεφυκει. Id. ibid.]


s: After all, however, we must acknowledge, that so complex, so


s: impressed upon the Memory. This, my Lord, we are informed by the


s: great Critic, was the first dress in which Poetry made its


s: και τας των τοιουτων τυχας‧ οἱ δε ευτελεστεροι τας των φαυλων


s: πρωτον ψογους ποιουντες, ὡσπερ ἑτεροι ὙΜΝΟΥΣ και ΕΓΚΩΜΙΑ. Arist.


s: _Sylvestres homines, Sacer, Interpresque Deorum


s: Cædibus, & victu fœdo deterruit Orpheus,


s: Dictus ob hoc lenire tigres, rabidosque leones._


s: The wood-born race of men when Orpheus tam’d,


s: From acorns, and from mutual blood reclaim’d.


s: The tiger’s fierceness, and the lion’s rage.  FRANCIS.


s: φιλοσοφον καλειν ουκ οιδα τινα δει προσαγορευιν τον το ανθρωπειον


s: ανθρωπων αισχρουργουμενα, και τω ταυτης φωνης οργανω. Laer. ub.


s: resolve into the same materials of which they were originally


s: Musæum ante omnes, medium nam plurima turba


s: Hunc habet, atque humeris extantem suspicit altis._


s: Musæus, rais’d o’er all the circling throng.


s: written by a person of his name, is thought to have been the work


s: It is generally allowed that Amphion, who was a native of Bæotia,


s: idea of the structure of the Ancient lyre, whose music is said to


s: probably in some such manner as we see them in an harp, or a


s: dulcimer. They did not so much resemble the viol, as the neck of


s: that instrument gives it peculiar advantages, of which the


s: Ancients seem to have been wholly ignorant. The Musician stood


s: every string alternately, and allowed each of them to have its


s: full sound. This practice became unnecessary afterwards, when the


s: the sounds corresponded. Horace tells us, that in his time the


s: lyre had seven strings, and that it was much more musical than it


s: Nec loquax olim, neque grata_ &c. Carm. Lib. III. Od. 11.


s: For a further account of this instrument, we shall refer the


s: reader to Quintilian’s Institutions. Lib. XII. c. 10.]


s: an oath. Εν ὑποκρυφοις ταυτα εχειν‧ και τοις απαιδευτοις και


s: αμνητοις μη μεταδεδιναι. Vid. Seld. de Diis Syr.]


s: Μεμβλεται, εν στηθεσσιν ακηδεα θυμον εχουσαις


s: Τυτθον απ’ ακροτατης κορυφης νιφεντος Ολυμπου.


s: Ενθα σφιν λιπαροι τε χοροι, και δωματα καλα.


s: Ὡς εφασαν Ηουραι Μεγαλου Διος αρτιεπειαι·


s: Και μοι σκεπτρον εδον, δαφνης εριθελεος οζον


s: Δρεψασθαι θηητον· επενευσαν δε μοι αυδην &c.


s: perhaps partly for this reason that we find different cities


s: contending for the honour of giving birth to men of Genius, or


s: eminence. Callimachus in his Hymn to Jupiter makes an artful use


s: Εν δοιη μαλα θυμος· επει γενος αμφεριστον.


s: Ζευ σε μεν Ι’ δαιοισιν εν ουρεσι φασι γενεσθαι


s: Ζευ σε δ’ εν Αρκαδιη· ποτεροι Πατερ εψευσαντο


s: Κρητες αει ψευσται· και γαρ ταφον, ὡ ανα σειο


s: Κρητες ετεκτηναντο· συ δ’ ου θανες· εσσι γαρ αιει.


s: Ὑμνεομες Ληδας. Τε και αιγιοχω Διος Ὑιω,


s: Καστορα και φοβερον Πολυδευκεα πυξ ερεθιζεν


s: To account for this phenomenon, my Lord, I need only remind your


s: Lordship of a truth which reflexion has, no doubt, frequently


s: improvement_, as Luxury augmented the subjects, and decorated the


s: Βακχον Ευιον ἡμιν.


s: Μυστιν αματε Κυπριν


s: Ὑμεναιοις κροτουσαν.


s: Και Εροτας αποπλους


s: Και χαριτας γελωσας, &c.


s: gives so ingenuous a character of himself.


s: Ὁν μοι μελει Γυγου


s: Το σημερον μελει μοι.  p. 28.]


s: beauty, in the Ode addressed to a swallow, where he runs a


s: comparison betwixt the liberty of that bird and his own bondage.


s: Συ μεν φιλη χελιδων, &c.  p. 60.]


s: delicacy, and who possessed above all others the art of selecting


s: Sappho puellis de popularibus_. Lib. II. Od. 13.]


s: παθηματα εκ των παρεπομενων, και εκ της αληθειας, αυτης ἑκαστοτε


s: fragment of antiquity. Ου θαυμαζεις ὡς ὑπ’ αυτο την ψυχην το σωμα


s: likewise sung of Bacchus, Venus, the Muses, and Cupid. From these


s: Mirantur Utmbræ dicere._  ----Hor. ub. sup.]


s: Your Lordship needs not be told, that the Roman Poet who had the


s: advantage of improving upon so many originals, takes in a greater


s: excursions, and the vivacity of his passion is justified by the


s: Defend, and beat the fruitful plain.  CREECH.


s: On other occasions he breaks abruptly into a short and spirited


s: Where rills and breathing gales sigh murmuring thro’ the shade.


s: There the deep sigh thy poet-friend shall mourn,


s: And pious tears bedew his glowing urn.  FRANCIS.


s: transitions of the Poet who breaks from his subject to exhibit an


s: It is only necessary to observe farther on this head, that the


s: Speret idem, sudet multum, frustraque laboret


s: Yet while they drive the same success to gain,


s: Shall find their labour and their hopes are vain.  FRANCIS.


s: _Versibus impariter junctis Querimonia primum


s: Post etiam inclusa est voti sententia compos._


s: Unequal measures first were taught to flow,


s: _Son stile impetueux souvent marche au hazarde


s: Chez un beau disordre est un effect de l’art._


s: possible, to explain facts by placing them in connection, and to


s: _Descriptas servare vices, operumque colores,


s: Cur ego si nequeo ignoroque, Poeta salutor_?


s: d’eblouir les yeux, et l’esprit, et pour ce sujet ils ne


s: combattent qu’avec des armes brillantes. Lam. Rhet. Liv. IV.


s: characteristic marks, by which a general resemblance is fully


s: tamen omnis Eloquentia aliquid commune. Quintil. Instit. Lib. X


s: _principally_ employed in the disposition of materials. Thus the


s: Philosopher and the Poet are equally entitled to the character of


s: by the variety and excellence of those materials with which


s: Imagination enricheth his subject. His Judgment appears in the


s: disposition of particular images, and in the general relation


s: which every subordinate part bears to the principal action of the


s: Critic says, “Considerer comme un corps qui no devoit pas avoir


s: des membres de natures differentes, et independens les uns des


s: autres.” Bossu du Poem. Epiq. Liv. II. ch. 2. It is true indeed,


s: that Tragedy is rather an address to the passions than to the


s: imagination of mankind. To the latter however we must refer all


s: those finer strokes of poetic painting, which actuate so forcibly


s: the importance of a warm imagination to the Dramatic Poet, by


s: Faculty when it is properly corrected. Though we must acknowledge


s: imagination feel with sensibility the impulse of the Passions.


s: A Poet may even merit a great encomium who excels in painting the


s: Disposition of his work may be otherwise irregular and faulty.


s: φαινεται. De Poet. c. 13. Upon the whole therefore, Didactic or


s: reason to fix upon the most forcible arguments, as well as to


s: throw them into the happiest disposition. We have seen however,


s: ἡκιστα καθαραι. Το γαρ εν παντα ακριβες, κινδυνος σμικροτητος‧ εν


s: παραλιγωρουμενον. Μη ποτε ηδε τουτο και αναγκαιουσιν, το τας μεν


s: τα{πειν}ας και μεσας φυσεις δια το μηδαμη παρακινδυνευειν μηδε


s: εφιεσθαι των ακρων, αδαμαρτητου ὡς επι το πολυ και ασφαλεστερας


s: διαφερειν. Longin. de Sublim. Sect. 33.]


s: As to the first, I need not tell your Lordship, that whatever Art


s: distinct feeling. The former is excited principally by the


s: sublime; the latter by the new and uncommon. These feelings are


s: this figure from Michael Angelo, who was at work on the same


s: subject in another part of the Vatican. We are indebted for this


s: curious anecdote to the ingenious Abbe du Bos. See his Reflex.


s: Crit. sur la Poes. et la Peint. Vol. II.]


s: It must immediately occur to any reader who peruseth the Hymn of


s: Θηκαο δ’ οιωνον μεγ’ ὑπειροχον αγγελεωτην,


s: Σων τεραων‧ ἁτ’ εμοισι φιλοις ενδεξια φαινοις.


s: Thy bird, celestial messenger, who bears


s: Thy mandate thro’ the sky;--O be his flight


s: δει ανα σκαπτω Διος αιετος, ω-


s: κειαν πτερυγ’ αμφοτερω-


s: θεν χαλαξεις,


s: -- -- ὁ δε κνωσσων


s: ὑγρον νωτον αιωρει, τεαις


s: ρεπαισι κατασχομενος.


s: The birds fierce Monarch drops his vengeful ire;


s: Perch’d on the sceptre of the Olympian King,


s: The thrilling darts of harmony he feels,


s: While gentle sleep his closing eye-lids seals;


s: And o’er his heaving limbs, in loose array


s: To every balmy gale the ruffling feathers play.  WEST.


s: Ζευς δε Πατηρ ιδηθεν ευτροχον ἁρμα και ἱππους


s: Ολυμπονδ’ εδιωκε, θεων δ’ εξεκετο θωκους.


s: Τω δε και ἱππους μεν λυσε κλυτος Εννοσιγαιος


s: Ἁρματα δ’ αμβρωμοισι τιθει, κατα λιτα πετασσας.


s: Αυτος δε χρυσειον επι θρωνον ευρυοπα Ζευς


s: Ἑζετο, τω δε ὑπο ποσσι μεγας πελεμιζετ’ Ολυμπος.


s: From Ida’s summits to th’ Olympian height.


s: Swifter than thought the wheels instinctive fly,


s: Flame thro’ the vast of air, and reach the sky.


s: ’Twas Neptune’s charge his coursers to unbrace,


s: And fix the car on its immortal base, &c.


s: He whose all-conscious eyes the world behold,


s: Th’ eternal Thunderer, sate thron’d in gold.


s: High heav’n the footstool of his feet He makes,


s: And wide beneath him all Olympus shakes.  POPE.


s: Heroe of the Poem is shown to great advantage.


s: Αναξιφορμιγγες ὑμνοι


s: τινα θεον, τιν’ ἡροα,


s: τινα δ’ ανδρα κελαδησομεν;


s: ητοι πισα μεν Διος‧


s: Ολυμπιαδα δ’ εστα-


s: Θηρωνα δε τετραοριας


s: ἑνεκα νεκαφορου


s: liberty in the Iliad, some of which Mr. Pope has judiciously


s: selected in the notes of his translation. Milton, in the same


s: spirit, compares Satan lying on the lake of fire, to a Leviathan


s: Lost, B. II. In this illustration it is obvious, that though the


s: fallen Arch angel. See Par. Lost, B. I.]


s: following verses of the Ode of Sophocles to the Sun.


s: Πολλα γαρ ὡστ’ ακαμαντος


s: κυματα ευρει ποντω


s: βαντ’ επιοντα τ’ ιδοι


s: οὑτο δε τον καδμογενη


s: τρεφει‧ το δ’ αυξει βιοτου


s: πολυπονον ὡστε πελαγος


s: Pindar’s first Pythian Ode, where he employs from the verse


s: beginning ναυσιφορηταις δ’ αδρασεα, &c. to the end of the stanza,


s: met with either in the works of Pindar, or in those of any Poet


s: whatever. The abrupt address to Phœbus, when he applies the


s: familiar, and the mind is satiated instead of being inflamed.


s: We must not think that this method of extending an illustration


s: ------ _verbum emicuit si forte decorum,


s: Si versus paulo concinnior unus aut alter


s: Or lengthen’d thought that gleams thro’ many a page,


s: Has sanctified whole poems for an age.  POPE.


s: Εγκαμιων γαρ αωτες Υυμνων


s: επ’ αλλοτ’ αλλον ως τε με-


s: λισσα θυνει λογον.


s: The song that spreads some glorious name


s: Shifts its bold wing from theme to theme;


s: incoherence which discover the extent of that faculty.


s: nature. This observation however cannot be applied with so much


s: Finguntur species, ut nec pes, nec caput uni


s: Lean not on earth, ’twill pierce thee to the heart;


s: A broken reed at best, but oft’ a spear,


s: On its sharp point Peace bleeds, and Hope expires.


s: is often indebted to this Poet, whom yet he banished from his


s: Commonwealth. Cicero in his most serious pieces studies the


s: _diction_, and copies the _manner_ of the Greek Philosopher; and


s: it evidently appears, that Thucydides has taken many a _glowing


s: Metaphor_ from the Odes of Pindar. We might produce many examples


s: συναπεργαζεσθαι οντι μαλιστα προς ομματων τεθεμενον. Οὑτο γαρ αν’


s: εὑρισκοι το πρεπον, και ἡκιστα αν’ λανθανοιτο τα ὑπεναντια.


s: magis quam concilio regatur. Plura enim multo homines judicant


s: odio, & amore, & cupiditate, &c. quam veritate & præscripto.


s: Something whose truth convinc’d at sight we find.


s: That gives us back the image of the mind.


s: A little reflection will enable us to discover the reason of this


s: with regard to the comparative merit of Homer and Tasso. The


s: Italian (says that spirited writer) has more conduct, variety and


s: we might still reply, that the principal merit of the Iliad,


s: considered as the production of Genius, lies in the grandeur of


s: the _principal Actors_. In all these respects we may venture to


s: affirm, that Homer remains without a superior among Authors


s: unaided by Inspiration; and the reader must be left to judge


s: whether or not it is from these criterions that we estimate the


s: Genius of a Poet. Our Author proceeds upon the same principles to


s: preference to the former. The merit of these works may be


s: ascertained in some measure, by the rules we have already


s: established. We need only to add further on this head, that among


s: the work of Ariosto; from which that of the Greek Poet is wholly


s: _Le Donne, e Cavalieri, l’arme, gli amore,


s: if they do not put one in mind of the Cyclic Writer mentioned by


s: _Fortunam Priami cantabo, & nobile bellum._


s: yet are of a very different strain from those which introduce the


s: Ανδρα μοι ενεπε Μουσα πολυτροπον, ὅς μαλα πολλα


s: I cannot help thinking that the whole of this introduction is


s: remarkably simple and unornamented, though a very judicious and


s: ingenious Critic seems to be of a contrary opinion.]


s: inaccuracy which appear in the actions of others, and which are


s: imagination. The consequences of this proceeding are eminently


s: panegyrical address to his Patron will select with solicitude


s: every circumstance in his character and actions which excite


s: approbation, in order to render his encomium as perfect and


s: expect, either that he will fix upon _new points of panegyric_,


s: which is always a matter of the greatest difficulty; or we must


s: indulge him in the liberty of calling in _adventitious


s: assistance_, when he is deprived of other materials. This appears


s: four of his Odes are inscribed to Hiero King of Syracuse, all on


s: account of his victories in the Games of Greece. Two Odes


s: immediately following the first to Hiero are addressed to Theron


s: King of Agrigentum; Psaumis of Camarina is celebrated in the 4th


s: and 5th Olympic; and the 9th and 10th are filled with the praises


s: Αμφι δ’ ανδρω-


s: πων φρεσιν αμπλακιαι


s: Αναριθμητοι κρεμανται


s: τουτο δ’ αμηκανον εὑρειν


s: Ὁτι νυν, και εν τελευ-


s: τα φερτατον ανδρε τυχειν. Pin. Olym. VII.


s: Know we what fortune yet remains behind?


s: Know we how long the present shall endure?  WEST.


s: reconnoit la maniere du Maitre, bien qu’ on n’y retrouve pas a


s: beaucoup près tout son genie. Mem. de Liter. Tom. III. p. 49.]


s: de celle du stile qui dans Pindare a toujours plus de force, plus


s: sentiments are conveyed, deserve to be equally the objects of


s: The dire effects of her proud tyrant’s guilt;--


s: Lay heavy on her head, and sunk her to the dust.  ADDISON.


s: Thrice should her captive dames to Greece return,


s: And their dead sons, and slaughter’d Husbands mourn.  ADDISON.


s: The prosperity which she promiseth to the Roman arms is therefore


s: Pindar like some fierce torrent swoln with show’rs,


s: Which from the Alps its headlong Deluge pours,


s: And foams, and thunders o’er the Vales below,


s: Rolls his impetuous, vast, unfathomable song.  WEST.


s: This subject is treated so fully in the preface of Mr. West’s


s: Translation, that we need only here to refer the curious to his


s: remarks. The Ancient Odes are always to be considered as songs


s: which were set to musick, and whose recital was generally


s: accompanied with dancing. If we may be permitted to form an idea


s: These sister-arts usually keep pace with each other, either in


s: their improvement or decay. Ne ci dobbiamo (says an ingenious


s: Foreigner, speaking of the modern Italian music) maravigliare,


s: ce corrotta la Poesia, s’e anche corrotta la musica; perche come


s: nella ragior poetica accennammo, tutte le arti imitative hanno


s: una idea commune, dalla cui alterazione si alterano tutte,


s: ornamenti e dalla copia delle figure, ha communicato anche il suo


s: I am afraid, that your Lordship is now thinking it high time to


s: bring the whole of this detail to a period.----Upon reviewing the


s: inequalities in _particular members_ of a work, which an enlarged


s: RICHARD C. BOYS, _University of Michigan_


s: RALPH COHEN, _University of California, Los Angeles_


s: VINTON A. DEARING, _University of California, Los Angeles_


s: LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL, _Clark Memorial Library_


s: W. EARL BRITTON, _University of Michigan_


s: EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_


s: LOUIS BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_


s: JOHN BUTT, _King’s College, University of Durham_


s: JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_


s: ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_


s: SAMUEL H. MONK, _University of Minnesota_


s: ERNEST C. MOSSNER, _University of Texas_


s: JAMES SUTHERLAND, _University College, London_


s: H. T. SWEDENBERG, JR., _University of California, Los Angeles_


s: Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski (1595-1640) vas a Polish Jesuit whose


s: number of Isaac Watts’s pious and moral odes. Latin editions of


s: Another striking example of the direct influence of Casimire upon


s: Let th’ _Goth_ his strongest chaines prepare,


s: The _Scythians_ hence mee captive teare,


s: Then let fierce Goths their strongest chains prepare;


s: My soul being free, those tyrants in the face I’ll stare.


s: Some of Casimire’s richest imagery is found in his paraphrases of


s: The Polish poet, who was a university professor and a doctor of


s: Hermetic ideas are also encountered in Casimire’s third epode,


s: versification. A knowledge of the themes and techniques of this


s: Cum infestæ Thracum Copiæ Pannoniâ excessissent.


s: When the hatefull forces of the Thracians departed out of


s: Banish’d th’unhallowed earth, doe please


s: Cleare dayes, such yeares as were of old


s: The Heavens hayle Pearles, and molten Gold


s: The Mountaines leape, and rough Rocks smile


s: Hee that o’re Starrs and earth hath powre,


s: ’Bout whom the beauteous starrs inquires,


s: Nè plus æquo de adversâ fortunâ queratur.


s: _That hee would not complaine too much of adverse fortune._


s: Hath throwne the hardest chance of Fate.


s: With th’ waves, that South windes tosse to day,


s: The day-starre great, that man doth see,


s: From th’ blushing East a new birth doth not get


s: By the swift violence of her wheele, throwes down,


s: So active in such nimble sports as these.


s: Thou’rt said to kisse, and lick the dust of’s shooe,


s: And then _Tarquinius_, thou shalt soon discerne


s: From his proud height, him downward thrust,


s: His trampled robes smoking in mire and dust.


s: His all-bespattred lookes thou shalt not feare,


s: Vitæ humanæ brevitatem benefactis extendendam esse.


s: _That the shortnesse of mans life is to bee lengthened


s: When hoary frost shall dye thine haires,


s: Th’approaching Spring will passe as soon:


s: Whom snach’d by death, his friends bemone,


s: Write Fames sole heire: that’s free alone,


s: Ye Clouds, and Winds; I leave all earthly things;


s: And the vast ayre brings under, as I fly,


s: The Glyst’ring Temples of the Gods doe bow;


s: Forsaken townes, shrunke into nothing, stand:


s: Whole Nations every where all scattred lye.


s: Here walled townes that threatned Heav’n,


s: Now old and ruin’d, with the earth lye even:


s: Their heads i’th’ayre, lye buried all in dust.


s: But the fierce people rush to warres, most wild:


s: But Direfull Murraines their quiet fields lay wast.


s: The Armies yet both stand; and fury waites


s: Fresh courage here, the mingled troopes prepare.


s: With bloudy covering spread the fields all o’re:


s: Doe furiously with fierce contention fret.


s: His severall fashion’d weapons to command.


s: Pleasure doth fight, and unto Warre provokes,


s: This sordid man, oh base advantage! turnes


s: Mischiefe begets it selfe, from mischiefe growes.


s: Nor doth all sin, alvvaies like sin appeare.


s: With vvarlike Fleets: _Thetis_ begins to rore


s: With stormes of flaming Brasse, and here


s: Th’astonish’d Rocks all trembling stand with feare.


s: With stronger vvaves ’gainst the full shore doth beat.


s: With fire, Sword-vvrack your single destiny.


s: Such slaughters, such dire tragedies to ovvne?


s: Large Kingdomes there, brought under thrall


s: With Tumult, stagger, and for feare doe fall;


s: _King, Kingdome, People here entombed lye_.


s: Whole Havens over-flowing, and with these


s: The shaken Temples of the Gods that found?


s: Now sunke i’th’ deepe, small Cottages i’th’ same?


s: Vast wealth I see swept downe with th’ tyde


s: Rich treasure in the Ocean floting glyde.


s: Doth daily fight, and the pale Goddesse armes


s: The bloudy scene with slaughters, warrs,


s: With utter ruins, and with deadly jarrs;


s: Till the last day the Theater shall close,


s: To’a house enlightned by the Suns bright ray?


s: Lift up your longing Priest, yee Clouds, oh deigne


s: Lift m’up where th’aire a splendour yeilds


s: Lights the sun’s chariot through the azure fields.


s: The following winds on their wings mounting me,


s: Whole Nations perishing before mine eye?


s: The earth which alwayes lesse hath beene


s: Then’s Globe, and now, just now can scarce be seene,


s: Yee boundlesse Seas, with endlesse flouds of rest


s: Girt round _Sarbinius_ your panting Priest.


s: If things did fall, with the same stay, and leisure


s: On our most lofty things, and richest treasure.


s: The restlesse Fates of peopled-Cities, passe:


s: One day’s enough, whole Kingdomes t’overthrow:


s: Being neere thy death, then, _Publius_, spare


s: To load the Gods, with thy blasphemous plaints;


s: Or death so much thy neighbours house haunts.


s: The houre, that first to thee gave life,


s: That thou should’st likewise dye, gave first to thee.


s: He hath liv’d long, who well doth strive


s: VV’Are mock’d with ’baytes that fortune flings


s: W’are pleas’d with the deceitfull traine


s: Of words, and thinke them deeds. But when


s: Those friends the selfe-same words deny.


s: Similis est dilectus meus capreæ, hinnuloque cervorum.


s: Clamatura retrò, _Christe_, Revertere: &


s: Thou shunnest me, like to a fearfull Roe,


s: Or the rough noise o’ th’ suddaine Easterne blast,


s: For th’early frost the trembling leaves doth fright,


s: Hath hewne from th’ecchoing rocks his thundring darts,


s: But till I find thee, I’le not cease, nor rest,


s: And when with swifter speed thou fly’st away,


s: The tops of _Lebanus_, so green and gay,


s: Encompasse thee, old _Salem_’s fruitfull Land,


s: At length give o’re thy sad and carefull flight:


s: Thou shalt not scape me, th’evening bright


s: With its so watchfull Centry, thee’l betray,


s: And th’Moone with golden hornes doth stray.


s: By th’grones of the neglected shores I’le find


s: Thee; and by th’sighs o’th’ Westerne wind;


s: Thee the night’s watch, the starrs that walke about


s: Thou Cursed off-spring of that sacred place!


s: Gave nourishment to thee, thou shame of men.


s: Or mungrill Libard with a shee-Tiger, hurl’d


s: Thee, with a mischiefe, into th’hatefull world,


s: Heyre to the fury of thy Syre, and damm;


s: Or some wild Wolfe left thee a naked shame:


s: Under a huge hard rock: some angry storme,


s: From waves, with things so full of divers forme,


s: For birds and beasts, spew’d th’up a banefull prey;


s: The Marble quarry, ’mid’st the raging Sea,


s: It’s rigid veynes, from thy rough bosome drew;


s: Marble, from those rocks hewne, _Deucalion_ threw


s: Fix’d th’in thy regall seat, on thee accurst


s: Thou proudly lean’dst upon, close by thee sate


s: With stately columnes prop’d, fell tyrannie,


s: Her Ensignes, who through _Palestine_ let fly:


s: And her black sword with bloudy trembling hand


s: Did brandish round, when straight at her command


s: Hatreds, and strifes appear’d, murder and rage


s: Shee drew along; Tumultuous madness, all


s: The slaughter’d peoples unjust funerall:


s: In a large streame of bloud by her, o’re-throwne.


s: Next followed Her, the plaints, and direfull grones


s: Of sighing parents, rob’d of their little ones,


s: Whole tydes of teares, sobs, and lamentings great


s: And mourning in each corner of the street.


s: But if this show’r, from this sad cause begun,


s: To back the rayne? what doth their fury stay?


s: Why doth the shaken sky with rustling noise


s: Of the Sun’s chariot, bridle in the voice


s: Of the slow thunder? why the lightning stop


s: From breaking through the clouds with hideous clap?


s: Those ayrie feather’d arrowes in the darke


s: That stray, why do they spare their cursed marke?


s: _Acroceraunia_ with his three-fork’d flame.


s: And that huge Hill the Thracian Queen gave name,


s: _Æmathia’s_ craggy trembling rocks may passe


s: Guiltlesse; they have not sin’d at all, alasse!


s: Unlesse their Marble, with a prodigious birth,


s: This direfull Monster teem’d, t’infest the earth:


s: Breake then the mountaines, break yee lightnings,


s: Throw headlong downe ye fruitfull rocks of Kings.


s: May hee exspire! oh may the murth’rer fall!


s: Upon his kingdom’s pile, and flaming yew


s: Let his high carkasse blaze; the ayre anew


s: May th’ monster purge from his infectious breath,


s: The mocke of wrangling furyes, and of death.


s: Oh breake your entrayles, sluggish earth, and downe


s: Let the high ruins of the rocks be throwne;


s: ’Gainst which the waves o’th’raging Sea may rore


s: And _Nereus_ with his Quicksands Boyling o’re:


s: Wee’re heard. The climbing surges strike the stars


s: And the big Ocean all her strength prepares;


s: Her foame, and slimy mud sh’hath heap’d together


s: Devouring waves toss’d with the worst of weather:


s: The firmament doth shake, & Hell so neere


s: The shatt’red world now falls on’s impious head,


s: Even Hell it selfe pollute, possesse, alone,


s: Adiuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem, ne suscitetis, &c.


s: Ecce iste venit, saliens in montibus, transiliens colles, &c.


s: Out of _Solomons_ sacred Marriage Song, Cant. 2.


s: _I charge O yee daughters of _Jerusalem_, that yee stirre


s: _Behold hee commeth leaping upon the Mountaines &c._


s: Stay mee with saffron, underneath me set


s: Refresh mee with the choicest fruit, and spread


s: The whitest Lillies round about my head:


s: For the delay of the seene-pow’re divine


s: In sacred flames, consumes this breast of mine.


s: Yee Sisters! I, ’tis I, that humbly pray!


s: O, I, intreat you, by each Hind, and Roe,


s: That straying o’re the tops of Hills doe goe,


s: Yee stock of ancient _Isaac_, yee that move


s: With nimble foot through _Lebanus_ sweet grove,


s: O’re _Carmels_ fragrant top! yee Nymphs so faire


s: Doe not with claps of hands, or noise of feet,


s: Awake her, from her carefull slumbers yet:


s: Untill my Spouse, of her owne selfe, shall rise


s: And wipe away the soft sleep, from her eyes;


s: Untill the golden day-starre shall release


s: All things from silent rest, and gentle peace.


s: Behold from tops of yonder hills doth come


s: The blessed off-spring of’s faire mothers womb,


s: On the thick tops o’th’ groves doth leaping goe,


s: Hee leaps, and the great backs of Mountaines by,


s: The stately dwellings of the woods hee skips,


s: And down again with nimble foot hee trips:


s: Like to a frighted, and swift running Roe.


s: With an amazed haste, and deep fetch’d breath


s: Through uncouth places runs t’escape his death.


s: Æquo semper rectoq; animo, adversus fortunæ inconstantiam


s: _That we ought to be of an even and upright mind, against


s: Laughs shee? turne bravely away thy face.


s: Weeps shee? bring’t back, with smiling grace:


s: Thus close shut up, thine owne free state


s: Thou best mayst rule, chiefe Magistrate;


s: When the fierce Fates shall most molest,


s: Good luck, and peace, in that house stay


s: Where mourning, first, hath led the way.


s: This, prosperous hath, wheresoe’re it hits,


s: The griefe that hath been of such length,


s: Veras esse divitias, quæ à bonis animi petuntur.


s: _That those are the true riches which are fetch’d


s: With Fates, I ne’re joyn’d greedy hands in hast.


s: From the strict course of private jarres, that they


s: With mee, in such an equall peace should rest.


s: I know not what to morrow’s fortune brings


s: Heire to my selfe alone. The wealth she gave


s: Lyes in my outmost roomes, ’mongst worst of things;


s: Which, without force, she may for taking have.


s: Things can be ta’ne away, I ne’re thought mine;


s: Not poorer I, if mine owne selfe compleat.


s: I kingdome, _Marcus_, of my selfe I find


s: If the great custome of mine owne estate--


s: A great part of my mind lyes close, more wide


s: Then the rich Indyes are, to which at most


s: But thrice a yeare, we can but sayle or ride.


s: But my rich mind, oft to it selfe a guest,


s: Not ’bout to buy Toyes for a roome, or feast,


s: If of its selfe it’s seen, it’s richly fed.


s: _That all humane things are fraile and uncertaine._


s: If the first barke, _Fuscus_, thou would’st but pare


s: Which melts away, with the mild breath o’th’ ayre.


s: Valour from beauty sever’d, slowly moves.


s: Meere outsides please: had _Paris_ seene


s: Faire _Helens_ heart, how foule ’t had beene,


s: How ill requiting to the _Trojan_ Loves,


s: Ne’re, through the midst of _Nereus_ broyles, had hee


s: But Nature’s Lord, the mutuall yoke, we see,


s: Of things hath ord’red well, that black with white,


s: The best would choose, from Heav’n must learne the right.


s: Have fear’d. More large command hath hee,


s: Thy unwarlike breast, with shield of proofe


s: Whether’t bee _Dane_, or _Pict_, ta’ne out


s: From farthest _Brittaine_, hems th’about


s: His flatt’ring selfe, t’ himselfe subdue,


s: Dares Chance and Fortune do their worst;


s: His lookes to th’ votes o’th’ vulgar straine,


s: Ne’re moves him, nor the ayre that blowes


s: With swift applause; Hee’s blest whose sprite


s: At’s first wounds, who nor grones, nor quakes,


s: And the rough winds on him, should presse


s: Flames mix’d with billowes, nay whole Seas,


s: I’th’ midst o’th’ ruine, sport can find;


s: Whence, ’midst the fragments of the skye,


s: How much more great those things appeare,


s: Where, when by th’ Fates hee’s gladly brought,


s: Non tam populari exemplo, quâm potius rationis ductu


s: _That our life ought not to bee instituted so much by


s: popular example, as by the guiding of reason._


s: That baser path of life, the people make;


s: Vertue sequesters up her selfe, and dwells.


s: Lesse certaine, and more slipp’ry alwayes ’tis.


s: Custome, not reason, drawes the people now.


s: I’th’ way, like Truants, and forget the end,


s: The noyse of the mad rout, the hatefull cry


s: Nor no mans life is onely call’d his owne.


s: Whil’st that the rambling rout treads o’re


s: With after steps, the heeles of them before,


s: A mischiefe oft to those that come behind.


s: Sublimes and takes mee from the vulgar throng:


s: And wandring mindes of the too slothfull crew;


s: With sport, the dangers that below me lye;


s: And by, other mens mischances I can thrive.


s: Gloriæ inanis despicientiam & silentium commendat.


s: _Hee Commends the despising of vaine-glory, and silence._


s: True praise would not be knowne; the Sun


s: In’s doubtfull Court, and wisely raignes.


s: But when with hoarse rocks they do roare,


s: My houres, y’have often ask’d me, friend;


s: Thus chac’d, with weak’ned wings it dyes;


s: Vertue t’her owne praise deafe should be.


s: Our emulation, things a farre off command,


s: But Envy haunts things that are neere at hand.


s: _That adversity is to bee endured with a constant mind._


s: Teare followes teare, and fruitfull griefe


s: With drooping spirit, and moyst’ned eye,


s: Bewayle not then thy selfe, deare friend,


s: Rogatus cur sæpè per viam caneret, respondet.


s: _Being asked why hee sung so often as hee travailed,


s: Let th’_Goth_ his strongest chaines prepare,


s: Nihil in rebus humanis non tædio plenum esse.


s: _That nothing in humane affaires is not full of tediousnesse._


s: Nothing _Munatius_, nothing I sing’t againe,


s: That’s mortall, nothing from th’uncured paine


s: To us, but little healthfull, doth appeare,


s: And though not guilty of one spott, not cleare:


s: Doe over-cast with Envy’s shade; here one


s: From his owne native Hills the rising Sun.


s: Disclaimes; or th’ancient Moone, that strikes


s: Her beames through’s fathers glasse, dislikes.


s: Each yeare we change our ayre, and soyle, so light;


s: Him, _Hollands_ warmer Climate doth invite:


s: In vaine all this, if faithfull sicknesses


s: Wait close behind; if secret griefes ne’re cease,


s: Poore exiles! then, things left doe please us most,


s: Who a sure building can from vertue boast,


s: Vertue oft-times, rich in a rustick ease


s: Confines her selfe to her owne private blisse;


s: _Indica mihi quem diligit anima mea, ubi pascas,


s: Out of _Solomon_’s sacred Marriage Song.


s: _Tell mee (ô thou whom my soule loveth) where thou feedest,


s: where thou makest thy flocks to rest at noone, &c._


s: παραφραστικῶς


s: Thou said’st, farewell my Spouse, & went’st away


s: More fleet then Clouds with liquid paces stray:


s: ’Tis now high noone, the scorching Sun doth burne


s: I’th’ mid’st o’th’ pole, the mower spares the corne,


s: The Shepheard, with his flocks, is glad--


s: And painted birds, to seeke coole shade.


s: But Jesu! where art thou? what region’s blest


s: Knew I on what green Turfe thou dost repose


s: Thy fainting limbs; what wind with soft breath blowes’


s: Oh! lest the too much noise should raise thee, I


s: Would let fall streams of teares should qualifie;


s: My warmer sighes thou mix’d should’st find


s: With the cold blasts o’th’Easterne wind.


s: En dilectus meus loquitur mihi: Surge, propera amica mea,


s: columba mea, formosa mea, & veni. Iam enim hiems transiit,


s: Out of _Salomon_’s sacred marriage song.


s: _My beloved spake and said unto mee, rise up my love,


s: my Dove, my faire one, and come away; for loe the winter


s: is past, the raine is over and gone: the flowers appeare


s: on the earth, the time of singing of birds is come,


s: and the voice of the Turtle is heard in our Land.


s: Surge soror, pulchris innectito lora columbis;


s: Scande rotas, Libaniq; levem de vertice currum,


s: Sister arise, and harnesse thy sweet paire


s: Mount and drive hither, here let thy Chariot stop,


s: At thy approach the falling showres doe fly,


s: The lightning’s quench’d under thy harmlesse feet,


s: Altera floret humus, alterq; vagantia lætus


s: Hic etiam trepidi pendent è rupibus hædi,


s: Hinnuleique suis, passim dum flumina tranant,


s: While in the sacred Green, a bow’re we see


s: The Earth new Turff’s it selfe for thee to tread,


s: The straying starrs fresh fields make glad.


s: Here with their dams, of Kids th’amazed flocks


s: Here as they swim, the wanton Hinds do play


s: It Leo cum Pardo viridis de colle Saniri


s: Cumque suo passim ludunt in montibus agno


s: Plurimus hos circum tacito pede labitur amnis,


s: Per violas lapsæ per declives hyacinthos,


s: Each with his Lamb about the Mountaines skip,


s: By these a spacious brooke doth slowly glide,


s: Through bending Lilyes, banks of Violets


s: Lenè fluunt rivi, muscosis lenè susurrus


s: In vitrio pisces saliunt hilares crystallo,


s: Nam sibi dum vestro regemunt ex orbe palumbes,


s: Sic dum se viduo solatur Carmine turtur,


s: The rivers gently flow, and a still sound


s: The sporting fish dance in the christall Mayne,


s: The ayre, if dolefull comforts please, doth ring


s: For when the Doves eccho each others cry


s: As they with widowed notes themselves do please,


s: Cetera non desunt, pronis vindemia pendet


s: Ipsæ sponte virent segetes, innoxius ipse


s: Præbent Hospitium platani: præbet formosos


s: No want appeares; th’officious Vine doth stand


s: Here, thou shalt pick sweet Violets, and there


s: The Apple ripe drops from its stalke to thee,


s: The luscious fruit from the full Figtree shall


s: Meane while, the Vine no pruning knife doth know,


s: The Corne growes green alone, and th’unhurt land


s: The grasse affords a stately bed, the Plane


s: Aspirat quoties, nutantibus hinc atque illinc


s: Surge; quid indignos ducis per tædia soles?


s: Huc age, formosas formosior ipsa columbas


s: Which through the ayre, a rich perfume doe throw,


s: Arise my Sister deare, why dost thou stay,


s: Behold thy harness’d Doves, at thy delay


s: Put on, and hither drive thy beauteous paire


s: Cùm conjugi charissimæ justa persolveret.


s: παραφραστικῶς.


s: _When hee performed the Funerall obsequies of his


s: Si tibi pollicitum numen, si fata fuissent


s: Jure per assiduos (procerum fortissime) fletus


s: Quem Pietas quem non moveat non tristibus unquam


s: Et pudor, & proni niveo de pectore sensus,


s: Aut bona sedulitas, aut non incauta futuri


s: What though the Gods have promis’d she shall bee


s: Yet (valiant Sir) so great a losse still cryes


s: View but her pious mind, that tow’re of state


s: Her humble innocent soule, her guiltlesse feare,


s: The prudent thrift of her presaging mind


s: _And who can then forbeare t’embalme her Hearse_


s: _With the daily precious dew of teares?_


s: Provida sed longam magnis virtutibus ævum


s: Nec possunt, si quæ maturavére, profanis


s: Nunc adeò parces longis onerare querelis


s: Tis not in Fate to promise length of dayes,


s: Nor can the starrs suffer so ripe a birth


s: Load not the Heavens then with unjust complaints,


s: The courage of her richly temp’red breast


s: The starres themselves can’t shine without her.


s: Sic Tanaquil, sic quæ cunctantem Claudia rexit


s: Quæque maritali successit Thessala fato,


s: Ante diem raptæ vivunt post funera, vatum


s: Illa quidẽ non, si surdos ad carmina Manes


s: Thus _Tanaquil_; thus _Claudia_’s virgin band


s: Thus shee, that durst her Husbands fate abide,


s: ’Tis not in Art to fetch her back againe,


s: Or charme the spirits with _Orpheus_ straine,


s: No Orisons prevaile, sent from the breast


s: Sunt tamen exiles insigni in limine rimæ


s: Hæc ego si nullos fallunt insomnia maneis,


s: Errantem campo in magno, quem gemmea circum


s: Auro prata virent; arbor crinitur in aurum;


s: Quæ nec Apellæus liquor, nec pulchra trigoni


s: Through these to th’hidden mysteries I peep,


s: And (if the spirits nor dream, nor sleep)


s: I saw, or else me thoughts, I there had seene


s: With walls of Diamond, gates of purest glasse,


s: Each blade of grasse was gold, each tree was there,


s: Themselves with Gems, and Orient Pearle;


s: The glorious nothing, of the _Trigon_ glasse--


s: Stant virides campo stellæ, madidisque corusca


s: Ibat ovans, grandemq; sibi, grandemque nepoti


s: Nectu plura velis; satis est, cui fata dederunt


s: Through the sweet vales a Quire of Damsels sing


s: The stars with sparkling light stand round I see,


s: With looks more fresh and sweet, then are the Roses


s: Two flowry Chaplets, which with Gems set round


s: But here a veyle was drawne, I must not prie


s: Nor would you more. It may suffice that shee


s: Hath chang’d fraile flesh for blest Eternitie.


s: A long one (_Turscius_) joyns mine eyes together


s: To my light shoulders wings set on, and I


s: The flowry Meddowes, and the pastures o’re;


s: Where the greene Grove its coole shade yeilds


s: To th’stately grasse plotts, and ripe swelling fields:


s: Straight, ’mid’st the river Swans, up hyer


s: A winged fowle above the cloudes I’aspire;


s: And with sweet straines a bird I counterfeit.


s: See, now me thinkes, the cloudes in throngs


s: The lightning leaps too, at my ravishing songs;


s: And with her divers colour’d bow, I’me bound.


s: My not unwelcome dreames, just now off shak’d;


s: When my high Genius through th’ayre doth ride;


s: O’re Seas, with dry feet passing back again;


s: I beare, and nought to my dull bulke I owe.


s: And warn’d mee, lest then _Icarus_ of old


s: A lowder tale, and change the name o’th’Lake.


s: And if I write, my secure chaire holds mee.


s: Faire Fortune’s clearest streame doth gild.


s: He’s poore that wants himselfe, yet weighs


s: Without true praise great titles, flight:


s: In thy selfe alone thoul’t learne to bee.


s: The Westerne winds, with the warm breath o’th’Spring,


s: Returne, and o’re our fields their soft gales fling;


s: The River, which the gainfull ships so throng,


s: With welcome silence gently glides along,


s: Although the neighbouring Hill doth ring


s: With the shrill notes of birds that sing;


s: Although the Swaine, on the green bank that sits


s: Old Sonnets with his Oaten Pipe repeats,


s: At length to strike his full blowne sayle.


s: Such changes _Paullus_; when the Sun forth showes


s: Wee’l mount the back of green _Luciscus_, where


s: Hee’s thickest set with tallest Okes, and heare


s: The bubbling noise of streames that flow


s: Thence from the midst o’th’hill all _Vilna_ shall


s: Our prospect be; our eye shall lower fall--


s: On _Vilia_’s cooler streames, that wind,


s: From thence, farre off, the Temples wee’l behold,


s: And radiant Scutcheons all adorn’d with gold;


s: Then wee’l looke o’re that double towre,


s: How in a settled peace, and kingdomes rest


s: The easie people raise themselves, so blest!


s: Three Temples in three yeares w’have seen


s: Where _Gediminian_ Rocks themselves extoll


s: With their plaine tops, and then the Capitol,


s: Those buildings, whose proud turrets stretch


s: Themselves to th’Cloudes, and stars doe reach:


s: Great things to greater growth doe thus increase,


s: And with least paines, improve themselves by peace.


s: The Poplar now that shakes, when th’East winds blow


s: Stood cloth’d in gray, under the ling’ring snow:


s: The fields that now with blushing Roses spread,


s: Lay barren, and in hardest frost all hid:


s: The birds which chirping sit i’th’Spring;


s: Breake off delayes then, and from grievous care


s: A constant day, set by; which th’ev’ning faire


s: Hee commends the pleasantnesse of the Countrey, where


s: in the feasts of _September_, he retyred from _Rome_.


s: Appeare ye spritefull Quire with choicest sports,


s: And Thou great Master of the Revels, joyne


s: Witt pure and quaint, with rich conceits and free


s: Here free from care, nimbly let’s dance a round


s: Ageretque profugum Cæsarem, & quassum metu;


s: A gentle Cliffe from a steep Hill doth rise


s: And safe, with uncouth passage, leanes upon


s: Whence ’mid’st the Bulwark’d Forts, we may descry


s: Which to th’Imperiall force a terrour was,


s: When through the brasen troops of’s threatning foes,


s: Pursuing routed _Cæsar_, whom he brought


s: Great _Ursin_ here puts reynes toth’_Tuscan_ pow’re


s: Heire to his father’s worth, chiefe guide and stay


s: A Bow’re growes green, set round with trembling Okes


s: Which fanns the Heavens with gentle strokes.


s: It clothes the Hills, and spreads it selfe all over


s: Close joyn’d to th’walls, the Nymphs coole Arbour stands,


s: By these a banke of Vines, which th’neighbour Trench


s: Aut quæ procellis gaudet, & magno fremit


s: Nowhere the Lakes with fuller Sea doth roare,


s: Or rough _Albanus_ whose troubled waves doe mix


s: Not stormy _Julia_, when her swelling pride


s: _Benacus_ doth not raise more froth, when he


s: With rugged tops the bending mountaines round


s: Upon the slow calme streames looke downe.


s: _Romanus_ here his snowy back up-reares.


s: The Oke with trembling leaves which quakes,


s: And holds off _Boreas_, when his rawer blasts


s: ’Gainst the weake Southerne winds he casts,


s: Commands the Country farre, and out he sets


s: His Winter sides against Heavens threats.


s: Meane while a pleasant calme doth smooth the Lake,


s: Mild _Thetis_ selfe, with her own selfe finds sport,


s: Through which a ship doth cut, with pleasant gales,


s: The large-fin’d Chrystall cattell as they goe


s: With ready dragnet; then with lines of haire


s: Rich _Polla’s_ stately house there shines, and here


s: The friendly Foords which toward the Sea doe lye


s: Here neat _Aurelius_ farme looks gay, chiefe Lord


s: Whose water cures diseases, whose quick springs


s: Where _Flora_ makes the banks, and gives the name


s: From lively stones perpetuall waters flow,


s: And wash the fields wheresoe’re they goe,


s: Their father _Tyber_, and their King they found


s: Nature doth purely there advance each part,


s: As yet the virgin furrow, th’Hills yet stand


s: Chast _Tethys_, _Bacchus_ courts, _Thetis_ doth woo


s: Hence _Evius_ cheerfull rises, and doth twine


s: With th’Elme, that closely clings toth’ Vine,


s: With’s plenteous horne he swells, his locks hang by--


s: Delights; the purple Grape not so faire showes,


s: Hee’l not preferre _Faliscus_ sandy ground,


s: The yellow Tilths of happy _Cyprus_, hee


s: As in his owne -- in his owne channells hee


s: Sole Empresse _Ceres_ of the fertile lands


s: The fields with yellow waves doe ebbe and flow,


s: The ripe eares swim, when winds doe blow.


s: No vapour, here, Heavens cleared face doth staine,


s: No clowdy fleece stretch’d out with raine:


s: The Northerne blasts are still, and all at peace,


s: And the hoarse noise o’th’ woods doth cease:


s: The stubborne _Africke_ winds that use to stray


s: The bright Sun darting through th’enlightned Ayre


s: His beames, doth guild the Moutaines cleare,


s: The houres drive on heav’ns torch, that shine so bright,


s: The warme _Favonian_ winds with whistling gale


s: And with their temperate breath, and gentle noise,


s: The prateling Nests meane while no silence keep,


s: To’s mate, the Turtle ’mong’st the branches grones,


s: And with complaints breakes hardest stones,


s: The Nightingale, the pleasant Groves about


s: Bewayles her losse to th’woods, i’th’ cruell fields


s: And what the mournfull birds doe so complaine,


s: The Oke, the Alder tells; the Poplar tree


s: The Groves rejoyce with th’Eccho they afford


s: And tell them backe--ev’n word for word.


s: _Jordanus_ here, hither thy selfe command,


s: Withdraw thy selfe from cares, from all resort


s: So full of great affaires, at length thy breast


s: Here thou may’st passe thy Foord, in gloomy shade,


s: And here between thy Mounts, with tall Okes set,


s: Or in _December_, when the fields looke white,


s: And th’Hills, with the earlyest snow doth light;


s: Sometime th’entangled game, with twining nett


s: I’th’ wood, with feare thou shalt besett:


s: Sometimes with courser fleet, pursue full sore,


s: The Buck thou mayst, sometimes the Bore;


s: With thy thrown dart the red Deer thou shalt stick.


s: And th’frighted ravenous Wolves shalt strick,


s: Will also from his cares, himselfe make free,


s: O Fount more cleare then spotlesse glasse,


s: And press’d with cares that grievous lye,


s: Press’d, and with hollow palme drawne dry.


s: So when thou cutt’st with prattling noise


s: The Meads, and leap’st, men heare thy voice;


s: To thee, and thy Priests Lute: if nought


s: Ad secundam libri Epodon Odam _Q. Horatii Flacci_.


s: To the second Ode of the booke of Epodes of _Q. H. Flaccus_.


s: But, _Flaccus_, now more happy he appeares,


s: Farre off hath left his father’s ground, set free


s: No scorching heat, nor blasts of Winter _Jove_,


s: Hee shuns all strifes, and never doth resort


s: But either doth bewayle those dayes and nights,


s: Or else retyr’d, strives to collect and find


s: Having first fairly pois’d the recompence


s: Quæ Christe tecum, virgo quæ tecum colat


s: How he admires th’immortall rayes breake forth,


s: And their bright Orbes, more large then earth;


s: How through his trickling teares, he heips his fight,


s: Which with thy selfe, ô Christ, thy selfe in pray’r


s: The Starres with golden wheeles, are hurried by,


s: Over whose face, the plenteous teares doe stray,


s: Assoone as _Phœbus_ head begins t’appeare,


s: From depth of soule, lesse then himselfe he lies,


s: Or when the Sun shines cleare, the aire serene,


s: His eyes, so us’d to Heaven, he downe doth throw,


s: He viewes the fields, and wondring stands to see


s: See how (saies he) each herb with restlesse leaves


s: To th’ starres doth strive and upward heaves:


s: Remov’d from heaven they weep, the field appeares


s: The white-flowr’d Woodbine, and the blushing Rose


s: Branch into th’aire with twining boughs;


s: The pale-fac’d Lilly on the bending stalke,


s: To th’starres I know not what doth talke;


s: At night with fawning sighes they’expresse their fears


s: Am I alone, wretch that I am, fast bound


s: And held with heavy weight, to th’ground?


s: Thus spake he to the neighbouring trees, thus he


s: To th’Fountaines talk’d, and streames ran by,


s: But if a lightsome Country house that’s free


s: Or _Nemicini’s,_ if _Besdan_’s fruitfull field


s: To his plaine board with country dainties set,


s: Non me scari tunc, non Lucrinorum gravis


s: Provision of all sorts, expect their guest,


s: New bread, for which, ’midst the thin bryars, the Mayd


s: Cheese newly press’d, close by, the friendly Cann


s: With Cup cleane wash’d, doth ready stan’.


s: With me the _Lucrine_ dainties will not downe,


s: The Scare, nor Mullet that’s well growne;


s: But the Ring-dove plump, the Turtle dun doth looke,


s: A messe of Beanes which shuns the curious pallet,


s: Clusters of grapes last gathered, that misse


s: Then after noone he takes a kind of pride


s: And ’midst the pleasant Okes, a shade doth find,


s: To th’darksome shore, by the deep poole he goes,


s: Sometimes the sporting fish, his baite thrown in,


s: Meane while th’ spacious woods with ecchoing note


s: Et pressa sectos plaustra per sulcos gemunnt


s: With’s hastning pipe the sheapheard drives away


s: His flocke, which through the thickets stray:


s: To which as from the field they passe along,


s: O’re yeilding furrowes, carts full press’d with corne


s: Groane, and are like to breake the barne.


s: Our worke once done, we doe not silent sit,


s: Nor is our talke prolong’d with rude delay;


s: Jests dip’d in so much salt, which rubbing shall


s: If that rich churle, this had but seen, when hee


s: The money which i’th’ Ides hee scraped in


s: Veniat delectus meus in hortum suum. _Cant._ 5.


s: Pulcher Amor sumpsit rudis instrumenta coloni,


s: Et manibus stivam rapuit; castique laboris


s: Ilicet, ut facili subvertit vomere corda,


s: Castaque virginibus Gratia crevit agris;


s: Flos, ait, unus abest: sunt cetera millia florum;


s: Ut nullus possit, _Christe_, deesse, Veni.


s: _Let my beloved come into his Garden._ Cant. 5.


s: Love takes the tooles of a rude Country clowne,


s: His owne Artill’ry, and his torch layes down;


s: With staffe in’s hand, Oxen to th’Plow he set


s: For tillage, and such honest labour fit;


s: Straight, as he turn’d up hearts with easie share,


s: And grace i’th’ virgin-furrowes did appeare,


s: ’Mongst thousand others, one flower, quoth he, is mist:


s: That none may wanting be, come thou, O Christ.


s: Qualis erat, tuus ille? tuus pulcherrimus ille?


s: Arripio dextrâ pennam, lævaque tabellam,


s: Et noto, _Christe_, tuo quicquid in orbe noto.


s: Pingo rosas, aurum, gemmas, viridaria, silvas,


s: Et tabulam monstrans, Noster pulcherrimus, inquam,


s: Qualis erat, vultis discere? talis erat.


s: What is that Spouse of thine? that fairest Hee?


s: The barb’rous people said, of late, to mee.


s: Whatsoe’re, O Christ, in thy blest orbe I view.


s: Roses, and Gold I paint, Gems, Groves, Corne-land,


s: Green Gardens, Lakes, and Stars with nimble hand;


s: Would you needs learne, what might my fairest bee?


s: Looke o’re this tablet, pray, O such was Hee.


s: Et fugis, & fugiens clamas, quid sponsa moraris?


s: Non fugis, ut fugias: ut capiare, fugis.


s: Thou run’st, & running cry’st, why dost thou stay


s: My Spouse? thou would’st be ta’ne, not get away.


s: Hæc, quæ virgineis nituntur lilia culmis,


s: Non generant similes Pæstana rosaria flores,


s: Non hæc purpureis mater Corcyra viretis,


s: Nec parit æquoreis pulsa Carystos aquis.


s: Cùm nullas habeant natales lilia terras,


s: These Lillyes which on virgin stalks doe bend,


s: From whence do they their chaster leaves extend?


s: The _Pæstan_ beds such flowres did ne’re bring forth,


s: Nor _Pharian_ fields e’re gloried in such worth:


s: _Alcinous_ purple banks, ne’re teem’d with these,


s: Since then these flow’res no native place do know,


s: Who can deny from her chast hand they grow.


s: _Iohanni de Lugo_, dum post morbum ad intermissam de Pœenitentiâ


s: Fertur & indomito frænos laxasse dolori,


s: Cùm rursus domito repetis tua pulpita morbo,


s: Et domitos hilari risu frænasse dolores,


s: Quis, Pater, incolumi de te non gaudeat, ipsæ


s: To _Iohan de Lugo_, when after a long sicknesse,


s: he returned to his intermitted Lecture of Repentance.


s: With hairs unkemb’d Repentance late did mourn,


s: When with so feirce a Feaver thou wert torne:


s: Shee’s said, to let loose raynes t’untamed griefe,


s: To’affoord her moyst’ned bosome, no reliefe,


s: But when th’desks agen, thy sicknesse tam’d,


s: Thou mountd’st, she’s said her careless haire t’have kemb’d


s: T’have bridled in her conquer’d griefe, and smile,


s: Of teares, her open’d bosome to beguile.


s: Who cannot then be glad, thou being safe?


s: When teares rejoyce, and griefe it selfe doth laugh.


s: Ah sitio, clamas, Princeps pulcherrime rerum:


s: Tu tamen, ah sitio, clamas: dabo pocula, Sponse:


s: Hæc mi Sponse, bibe: quæris cui fortè propines?


s: Ad me pro mundi, _Christe_, salute bibe.


s: Alas I thirst, great King, thou loude dost grone,


s: I have no pleasant Wine for Thee, thirst on.


s: Yet oh I thirst, thou cry’st: a Cup to thee


s: Woes mee! I’le give: but mix’d with gall’t must be.


s: Drink this, my Spouse: perhaps thou’lt ask to whom?


s: To me, O Christ, to th’health o’th’world let’t come.


s: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by


s: in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of


s: Gleamed red with fire-light through the leaves


s: Its torch-race scattering smoke and gleeds;


s: Their lines of stalls, their mows of hay,


s: Through the wide doors the breezes blow,


s: Shuddered and danced their dance of death,


s: And, though of different lands and speech,


s: His coat-of-arms, well framed and glazed,


s: With three wolf's heads, and for the crest


s: The scroll reads, "By the name of Howe."


s: To whom all tongues and lands were known,


s: His hands were small; his teeth shone white


s: His beard, a good palm's length at least,


s: And, wildly tossed from cheeks and chin,


s: Accepts, but does not clutch, the crown!


s: Fair-haired, blue-eyed, his aspect blithe,


s: Of elves and sprites their dances whirled;


s: The scream of sea-birds in their flight,


s: Through mist and darkness pouring forth,


s: The music ceased; the applause was loud,


s: The wood-fire clapped its hands of flame,


s: On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;


s: He said to his friend, "If the British march


s: Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--


s: Through every Middlesex village and farm,


s: For the country-folk to be up and to arm."


s: Then he said, "Good night!" and with muffled oar


s: Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,


s: And a huge black hulk, that was magnified


s: Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street,


s: The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,


s: And the measured tread of the grenadiers,


s: Marching down to their boats on the shore.


s: Then he climbed to the tower of the church,


s: Up the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,


s: And startled the pigeons from their perch


s: On the sombre rafters, that round him made


s: Up the trembling ladder, steep and tall,


s: Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,


s: That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread,


s: Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread


s: Where the river widens to meet the bay,--


s: On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.


s: On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.


s: Now gazed at the landscape far and near,


s: And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;


s: The belfry-tower of the Old North Church,


s: As it rose above the graves on the hill,


s: Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.


s: And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height


s: He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,


s: But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight


s: A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,


s: And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark


s: Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet;


s: That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,


s: The fate of a nation was riding that night;


s: And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,


s: Kindled the land into flame with its heat.


s: He has left the village and mounted the steep,


s: And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,


s: And under the alders, that skirt its edge,


s: Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,


s: Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.


s: When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.


s: And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare,


s: At the bloody work they would look upon.


s: When he came to the bridge in Concord town.


s: And the twitter of birds among the trees,


s: And felt the breath of the morning breeze


s: Who at the bridge would be first to fall,


s: You know the rest. In the books you have read,


s: How the British Regulars fired and fled,--


s: How the farmers gave them ball for ball,


s: From behind each fence and farm-yard wall,


s: Then crossing the fields to emerge again


s: Under the trees at the turn of the road,


s: And so through the night went his cry of alarm


s: A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,


s: For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,


s: In the hour of darkness and peril and need,


s: The people will waken and listen to hear


s: And the midnight message of Paul Revere.


s: The sword that hung there, dim with dust,


s: And said, "This sword was in the fight."


s: All laughed; the Landlord's face grew red


s: The Landlord's wrath, the others' fears,


s: The words that rouse, the voice that charms.


s: And lisp of leaves, and fountain's fall,


s: Perchance may lose its power to please."


s: One summer morning, when the sun was hot,


s: On a rude bench beneath his cottage eaves,


s: Of a huge vine, that, with its arms outspread,


s: Below him, through the lovely valley, flowed


s: And from its banks were lifted high in air


s: The spires and roofs of Florence called the Fair:


s: His wasted fortunes and his buried love.


s: For there, in banquet and in tournament,


s: His wealth had lavished been, his substance spent,


s: To woo and lose, since ill his wooing sped,


s: To this small farm, the last of his domain,


s: To prune his vines, and plant the fig and pear;


s: His falcon, faithful to him, when the rest,


s: Whose willing hands had found so light of yore


s: Had now no strength to lift the wooden latch,


s: That entrance gave beneath a roof of thatch.


s: The love with which his nature overflowed.


s: And so the empty-handed years went round,


s: Vacant, though voiceful with prophetic sound,


s: And so, that summer morn, he sat and mused


s: With folded, patient hands, as he was used,


s: And dreamily before his half-closed sight


s: Dreamed of the chase, and in his slumber heard


s: The sudden, scythe-like sweep of wings, that dare


s: The headlong plunge thro' eddying gulfs of air,


s: Then, starting broad awake upon his perch,


s: Tinkled his bells, like mass-bells in a church,


s: And, looking at his master, seemed to say,


s: Herself, yet not herself; a lovely child


s: With flowing tresses, and eyes wide and wild,


s: And looking not at him, but at the hawk.