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 GREEK AND LATIN VERSE 
 
 BY 
 
 Sir R. C. JEBB, Litt.D., O.M. 
 
 LATE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 SECOND EDITION. 
 
 Cambridge : 
 at the University Press 
 
 1907
 
 Cambrtlrge : 
 
 PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. 
 AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
 
 
 TO MY FATHER 
 
 Classic&I' tMguages
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 This book comes of a wish to gather up some work 
 in which I have found pleasure for years. 
 
 Forty-three translations are brought together here. 
 Thirty of these are revisions of pieces already published 
 elsewhere. In the Arundines Canii : 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. 
 In the Sertum Carthusiammi : 2, 7, 15, 16, 17, 19, 30, 31. 
 In the Folia Silvulae : Part I. 3, 5, 10, 11, 13, 26, 29, 40: 
 Part II. 4, 8, 9, 12, 18, 20, 27, 28. Leave to revise and re- 
 print these pieces has been given by the Editor in each 
 case.
 
 viii PREFA CE. 
 
 The other thirteen translations have not been published 
 before— I, 6, 32, 2>Z, 34, 35, 36, zi^ 38, 39> 4i' 42, 43- 
 
 The metres into which I have tried to do ' Abt Vogler ' 
 are those of the fourth Pythian. 
 
 I wish to express my thanks for advice and help in 
 preparing this book to M. Ch. Chauvet ; to Dr Kennedy, 
 Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge; 
 to Mr F. A. Paley ; and to Mr Sidney Colvin, Fellow 
 of Trinity College and Slade Professor of F^ine Art. 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 March^ y^T^.
 
 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 This collection of Sir Richard Jebb's compositions in- 
 cludes all the passages (forty-three in number) contained in 
 the volume of 1873, with a few corrections and considerable 
 additions. The only alteration of importance which has 
 been made without authority is in the second line on p. 39. 
 This line, which as originally printed was unmetrical, had 
 been marked by Sir Richard J ebb for correction : but the 
 alteration seems never to have been actually made. The 
 changes in the version from Shelley (p. S^,) were made by 
 the translator himself.
 
 X PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 The additional pieces are Macaulay's ' Epitaph on a 
 
 Jacobite,' ' Polyglot Russian Scandal V the Pindaric version 
 
 of Leopardi's Ode on the Monument to Dante, an original 
 
 Pindaric ode written for the celebration of the eighth 
 
 centenary of the University of Bologna; also a translation 
 
 in Pindaric metre of a poem by Mr Rann Kennedy, father 
 
 of the late Professor B. H. Kennedy, who printed it in his 
 
 volume entitled 'Between Whiles' (Bell, 1877). It is here 
 
 reproduced by permission of the Misses Kennedy. Finally, 
 
 for the hitherto unprinted version which stands last in the 
 
 book the editor is indebted to the kindness of Mr Alfred 
 
 Pretor, Fellow of St Catharine's. 
 
 R. D. A. H. 
 
 February 1907. 
 
 1 The original verses from which this set of translations was made were 
 written by the late W. G. Clark. The English was done into Latin, the Latin 
 into Greek, and so forth ; the last translation being done again into English : 
 thus only the Latin translator saw the original verses. It looks as if only the 
 latter half of Mr Clark's poem has survived : since not only is the Latin version 
 twice the length of the English as here printed, but the first four lines stand in no 
 discernible relation to it. However this may be, the editor has not succeeded in 
 tracing any more lines.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 I. Abt Vogler Browning ... 2 
 
 II. Tithonus Tennyson ... 16 
 
 III. '■Home they brought her warrior 
 
 dead' Tennyson ... 26 
 
 IV. From 'Henry IV: Part I. Act I. 
 
 Scene III. Shakespeare . . 30 
 
 V. The Dying Swan Tennyson ... 34 
 
 VI. Silence Lord Houghton . 38 
 
 VII. From ' The Spanish Gypsy ' . . . George Eliot . . 42 
 
 VIII. In Memoriam, Stanza LXIII. . . Tennyson ... 46 
 IX. From ^ Timon of Athens^ Act IV. 
 
 Scene III. Shakespeare , . 50 
 
 X. ^ Tears., idle tears' Tennyson ... 54 
 
 XI. Stanzas Keats .... 58 
 
 XII. Darkness Lord Byron . . 62
 
 Xll 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 XIII. ^ Many a year is in its grave ^ . . Longfellow . 
 
 XIV. From ^Julius Caesar,^ Act II. 
 
 Scene I. Shakespeare . 
 
 XV. Song from '■The Arcades' . . . . Milton . . . 
 
 XVI. Ode Prior. . . . 
 
 XVII. From '• Protnetheus Unbound^ . . Shelley . . . 
 
 XVIII. On an Early Death Lord Byron . 
 
 XIX. From * The Progress of Poesy ' . . Gray .... 
 
 XX. From "■ King John,' Act IV. Scene I. Shakespeare . 
 
 XXI. To a Lady's Girdle Waller . . . 
 
 XXII. Iphigenia Tennyson . 
 
 XXIII. From '■The Two Noble Kinsmen,'^ Beaumont and 
 
 Act V. Scene I. J Fletcher 
 
 XXIV. The Praise of Virtue Marshall . . 
 
 XXV. From ' The Virgin Martyr,' Act IV. 
 
 Scene III. Massinger . . 
 
 XXVI. Mycerinus Matthew Arnold 
 
 XXVII. Diaphenia Constable . . 
 
 XXVIII. Fro7n '■Hamlet^ Act III. Scene III. Shakespeare . 
 
 XXIX. The Last Man Campbell . 
 
 XXX. From ^ Enoch Arden ' Tennyson . . 
 
 XXXL From '■Paradise Lost,' Book I. 
 
 105 — 124 Milton . . . 
 
 XXXII. The Progress of Poesy Matthew Arnold 
 
 XXXIII. The Coming of Arthur .... Tennyson . . 
 
 XXXIV. From '■Atalanta in Calydon ' . . . Swinburne , . 
 XXXV. ^ Her silverings ended with the day^ James Aldrich 
 
 PAGE 
 
 66 
 
 70 
 74 
 
 78 
 82 
 
 86 
 88 
 92 
 96 
 
 98 
 
 102 
 106 
 
 no 
 114 
 118 
 122 
 126 
 132 
 
 136 
 
 140 
 144 
 148 
 152
 
 CONTENTS. xiii 
 
 PAGE 
 
 XXXVI. From ' Romeo and Juliet,' Act V. 
 
 Scene III. Shakespeare . . 154 
 
 XXXVII. /// Memoriam, Stanza LXXXVIII. Tennyson ... 158 
 
 XXXVIIT. Frofn 'Twelfth Night; Act II. 
 
 Scene IV. Shakespeare . . 164 
 
 XXXIX. From ' Guinevere' Tennyson . . . 168 
 
 XL. Frotn 'The Giaour' Lord Byron . . 172 
 
 XLI. The Dream Lord Byron . . 176 
 
 XLII. IIyi7in on the Morning of Christ's 
 
 Nativity Milton .... 180 
 
 XLIII. Ode. Intimations of Immortality from 
 
 Recollections of Early Childhood . Wordsworth . . 208 
 
 Epitaph on a Jacobite Macaulay . . . 232 
 
 An Experiment in ' Polyglot Russiafi]^ W. G. Clark and 
 
 Scandal' J others . . . 236 
 
 Sopra il Monumento di Dante che si 
 
 preparava in Firenze .... Leopardi , . . 240 
 
 T<j) €v Bovoovta Ilav€TrL(TTr]fiiw 264 
 
 The Reign of Youth R. Kennedy . . 274 
 
 To Mary 312 
 
 Index I. Authors 315 
 
 II. First Lines '. ... 318
 
 J. T.
 
 ABT VOGLER. 
 
 Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, 
 
 Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, 
 Claiming each slave of the sound, at a touch, as when 
 Solomon willed 
 Armies of angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk, 
 Man, brute, reptile, fly, — alien of end and of aim, 
 
 Adverse, each from the other heaven-high, hell-deep re- 
 moved, — 
 Should rush into sight at once as he named the ineffable 
 Name, 
 And pile him a palace straight, to pleasure the princess 
 he loved !
 
 YMNOI. 
 
 eL0e fJLLjXVOL 7rOLKL\6<f)(OVOV eSo?, <TTpO(j)7]. 
 
 ociija' o reu^o) haiSakoev, /caXecrat? auXaiz/ KkvTav Treiddvop vurj- 
 
 pecriav, 
 TrpocnroX opcrai^i <l>ueyjxa0* CTOLixa 0Ly(ov, &)? BaufJioucov opcrev 
 
 TToravav 
 ovpavioiv re ^iclv XoXoixcou kol rapTapeiajv, 
 dvopa re 6rjpd re jjivldv 9^ epneTov t, evavrlovq 
 epyop dXkdXoLq fxepufjLvdv t, ovpavo<; w? ip€fiev<5, irpoOopelv, 
 ws KpeovT avSacr' dvavSarov, <f>L\a<s aipefxev 
 oofxov acjyap jaeiXtyjU,' avdcrcras' 
 
 I 2
 
 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 Would it might tarry like his, the beautiful building of mine, 
 This which my keys in a crowd pressed and importuned 
 to raise ! 
 Ah, one and all, how they helped, would dispart now and 
 now combine, 
 Zealous to hasten the work, heighten their master his praise ! 
 And one would bury his brow with a blind plunge down 
 to hell, 
 Burrow awhile and build, broad on the roots of things, 
 Then up again swim into sight, having based me my 
 palace well, 
 Founded it, fearless of flame, flat on the nether springs. 
 
 And another would mount and march, like the excellent 
 minion he was. 
 Ay, another and yet another, one crowd but with many 
 a crest, 
 Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass, 
 
 Eager to do and die, yield each his place to the rest : 
 For higher still and higher (as a runner tips with fire, 
 When a great illumination surprises a festal night — 
 Outlining round and round Rome's dome from space to spire) 
 Up, the pinnacled glory reached, and the pride of my 
 soul was in sight.
 
 ABT VOGLER. 
 
 etdc. fxoi TOLOv fxevoL Ifjiepoev avTi(rTpo(f)r]. 
 
 Swju-' 6 7raiJL(f)(opoLorLv doXXees 'qireiyovd* ctjutWai? ^opoat inoLKO- 
 
 SojjieLv 
 ws eKacTTai (TV[j,Tr6veov, (rnopaSav etr' Ikahov, npoOvfjiOL 
 SecTTTOTou epyov iiTOvpiaai eu/cXetctv r' iTraipeiv 
 Kad' 6 fiev i<s Svocjiepov 7rpai>r)<; ko\v^^(x>v Tdprapov 
 yet? TrXareta? d/x^t /ot^a? crKctTrre recos TTOvioiv fceXaSo?, 
 elr' dvacra, ev hoip.d (jlol Traydv /cTtcras veprepdv 
 irvpos d6LKT0L<; iv 6eixd6Xoi<;' 
 
 dXXos OLV avv T dXXo^ dvca /SeySaw?, ^av/xacrrd Xarpevcjv 
 <jTparo<i i7ra)B6<i. 
 
 €19 iKaToyK€cf)dXa<s, Trdy^vcrou rjp^v XajXTrpoTepoiv vdXov 
 ipfxa TTvpyoiv, hpdv tl ttol^ tls kol 6av€jx€v /xe/xaws, 
 Tw TreXas eiKOiv o)? ydp evr' eKpr)^^ d(l)pdarTov ^eyyea Travt'v^toos, 
 ^et Tts TTvpl /Bvcra-oOev is Kopv(f)dv TrjXavyes Ipov 
 iK(TT€(f)(ov Poj/xas aoiTov, Tolov del 
 KaXXiTTvpyov 0avfjLaTO<s alpofxevov ^dpfxa fxoL xjjv^ds icjidudr)'
 
 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 In sight? Not half! for it seemed, it was certain, to match 
 man's birth, 
 Nature in turn conceived, obeying an impulse as I ; 
 And the emulous heaven yearned down, made effort to 
 reach the earth, 
 As the earth had done her best, in my passion, to scale 
 the sky : 
 Novel splendours burst forth, grew familiar and dwelt with mine, 
 Not a point nor peak but found and fixed its wandering star ; 
 Meteor-moons, balls of blaze : and they did not pale nor pine. 
 For earth had attained to heaven, there was no more 
 near nor far. 
 
 Nay more ; for there wanted not who walked in the glare 
 and glow. 
 Presences plain in the place ; or, fresh from the Protoplast, 
 Furnished for ages to come, when a kindlier wind should blow. 
 Lured now to begin and live, in a house to their liking at last; 
 Or else the wonderful Dead who have passed through the 
 body and gone. 
 But were back once more to breathe in an old world 
 worth their new : 
 What never had been, was now ; what was, as it shall be anon ; 
 And what is, — shall I say, matched both ? for I was 
 made perfect too.
 
 ABT VOGLER. 7 
 
 dXXo. fxav ovS' a[XL(rv ttoj koltlSov' <TTpo(f>T]. 
 
 TLKTe yap S17 ^d <l>vcrt5 dvrtTrdXov? dvaraicri ^Xacrrd? Tcr' ejaot 
 
 avTOfjiaTo*;, • 
 
 Kat )^66u aWrjp irpocrKvcraL avTepdoiv cjpe^aT opyaivcov avoiOev, 
 ola /cat aWep' e/xat? dt'a^djLtei' yat' ez^ oyo/Aat?- 
 (j)€yyea S' afjieT€poL<; dXXota [J'l'X^V crvvTp6(f)0}<?, 
 nav T aKpov fjLijvas re \dfjL7ra<s t, acTTpa nXauTJT, e^ e(^e^o/xeVa?* 
 ovo ereipovo • w? ya/3 T^ory ya? rrokovo ly/xei^a? 
 TO re TTpocro) ravTov to t iyyv^. 
 
 TjV be Kat TTyOo? Tolcroi tlv' elcopdav avricrTpo^r). 
 
 evTOTTOJv TrafXTrpeTTTa TTpoacoTra TrvpL(f)\eKTOL's dvacrTp(jo(f)a)ixev^ iv 
 
 dyXatVats* 
 etr CTT aio)!/ ovpua Trvevcroixevou ueLOL<; veoKTLcrTov<; tvttolctlv 
 Kaivicrai apri yStov 80^1109 dpixol de\^ eaSw?* 
 etre OLaTrrafievcov creixvdv veKpcov ofjajyvpuv 
 TTctcr aveKueiv Tavuao tcra rot? e/c€f 17^ yay9 a Trptt' fxeu aTrrjv, 
 
 IT/Jtl/ O OCT T)^, 7]V OL CT eO^Tttf TOt? O , OCT CO^r , TjpKje' 
 
 reXea yd/9 /cat rdixdy , elTretv.
 
 8 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 All through my keys that gave their sounds to a wish of 
 my soul, 
 All through my soul that praised as its wish flowed 
 visibly forth, 
 All through music and me ! For think, had I painted the whole, 
 Why, there it had stood, to see, nor the process so won- 
 der-worth : 
 Had I written the same, made verse — still, effect proceeds 
 from cause. 
 Ye know why the forms are fair, ye hear how the tale is told ; 
 It is all triumphant art, but art in obedience to laws, 
 Painter and poet are proud in the artist-list enrolled : — 
 
 But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, 
 
 Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are ! 
 And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man. 
 
 That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, 
 but a star. 
 Consider it well : each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; 
 
 It is everywhere in the world — loud, soft, and all is said : 
 Give it to me to use ! I mix it with two in my thought 
 
 And, there! Ye have heard and seen: consider and bow 
 the head !
 
 ABT VOGLER. 
 
 TTctv ToS' aJvkoiv T epyov, e/aa? KeKahrjcrdvTOiv Kar ev^oikav 
 <f)pev6^, i7rq)86<i. 
 
 /cat (fipevos d voeoLcr eu^av dvevcfyafjiacr eTTtreXXo/xeVav, 
 X^PI^^ ^A'-o^ K€LUOLcri T' el yap rev^a ypat^atg rctS', Ihojv 
 TL<s K€v dydcrOiq [xa)(avdv ; el 8' iv TTrvyaX<^ (oklct vp-voiv, 6 re Spcov 
 OTrjKo<; to re opa/t • ofe^' ecrrc Kakov (tx^jx , lctu , o r ati/os 
 Ota Xe^'* 0}pL(T[JLevas ravT ddXa TC)(yaq' 
 €9 r€^^'tra9 yayo reXeeiv, roS' dotSot? KXeos Kal l,coypa(f>o iaiv 
 
 vvv Se SaifMCDV i^eKakvxjje fiiav, a-Tpo<f>7]. 
 
 dcTTpandv w?, navTOTTopov icpaSta?, decr^ioiv KvecfiOLOv reKTOV 
 
 dpiTTpeTreoiv 
 TTov yap i^rjv aXXo ^porol^ tl rotdvS', otoi' /ctvttov? rpetg ctv/a- 
 
 TTkdcravTi 
 fjLrj rerparov ktvttov aXXa creXa? Tra[JL(f)\eKTOv aipetv ; 
 avTo TOL dpfJiovia<? (fxavap. eKacTTOv eureXe?, 
 
 Bap,6dpovv, jxey* etre XeTrroi/, /a^Jj^t' aTrXoof ro o' iyco Kepacra<s 
 crvi' ovoLv aKAoLs rt revg ; rjKOvcraT , etoere* 
 decTKeXov 6avp,dl,eT a\Kdv.
 
 I o TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Well, it is gone at last, the palace of music I reared ; 
 
 Gone! and the good tears start, the praises that come 
 too slow ; 
 For one is assured at first, one scarce can say that he feared, 
 
 That he even gave it a thought, the gone thing was to go. 
 Never to be again ! But many more of the kind 
 
 As good, nay, better perchance : is this your comfort to me? 
 To me, who must be saved because I cling with my mind 
 
 To the same, same self, same love, same God : ay, what 
 was, shall be. 
 
 Therefore to whom turn I but to Thee, the ineffable Name ? 
 Builder and maker, Thou, of houses not made with hands ! 
 What, have fear of change from Thee who art ever the same ? 
 Doubt that Thy power can fill the heart that Thy power 
 expands ? 
 There shall never be one lost good ! What was, shall live 
 as before ; 
 The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound ; 
 What was good, shall be good, with, for evil, so much 
 good more ; 
 On the earth, the broken arcs ; in the heaven, a perfect 
 round.
 
 ABT VOGLER. ii 
 
 elev, oi)(ei Syj, 7ro\v-)(opBov eSos, avTia-rpo^t]. 
 
 BaKpvcov T eppojy iir 6\o)\6tl '^(Xcopov SevfjLa Traidv t oxfje irep 
 
 opvvjxevos' 
 y^py^opiiqv yap OapcraXeo}^;, €Tvp^ elirelvy ovre Setcra? ovte Sr))(dei^, 
 TovS' o l3e/3aK€v oSov TTpovoiqcra'i fxoLpoKpavTov 
 TovTO fxev ovK€T tt/o ECTT ' €(jTaL o€. oiquev aAA tcra 
 /cart KpeCcrcrco. \pv)(pa 6pv\eL<;. ov yap iojv iyco auro? act, 
 Tovrd T alku irarpX <tvv TavTco cre/3a)v, a (i)t,o yiai ; 
 otra Trapoio r)p, (pap. ecreauai. 
 
 TTolov ovv el py) aey, iiroivvpiav dpprjTov ojvopacrpeve, eVwSo?. 
 TrpocTTpeTTopai, peXdOpcov ^eipecrcriv ov reKTaivopevoiv yeviroip; 
 dcrTpo(f)o^ zrw? (ov crrpa^i^cret ; Trois Keap apTrerdcra^ 
 ov Kopicrei^ ; ovSev davelTai ^pr]<jT6v' icrXd ^ijcreL e0 ocrcra 
 
 "nplv r^v 
 (Tiyoiv 8' dyaOov to KaKov, nXiov ovSev. ^piqar er ecrrat 
 Trdvd' o(T Tjv, Toacrois (tvv aWot? dvri KaKcov 
 yaZa pkv yap KcoXa payivra kvkXov, Zev? 8' opa kvkXov riXeLOv.
 
 1 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; 
 
 Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor 
 power 
 Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the 
 melodist 
 
 When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. 
 The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard. 
 
 The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, 
 Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard ; 
 
 Enough that he heard it once : we shall hear it byand-by. 
 
 And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence 
 For the fulness of the days ? Have we withered or 
 agonized ? 
 Why else was the pause prolonged but that singing might 
 issue thence ? 
 Why rushed the discords in, but that harmony should be 
 prized ? 
 Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, 
 
 Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe : 
 But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear ; 
 The rest may reason and welcome : 't is we musicians know.
 
 ABT VOGLER. 13 
 
 TrdvO* a ySovXatg eX.7rtcrt t eTrXdcraixev a-Tpocfyt]. 
 
 -vprjCTT, 6veipoi<i t , ecrcreTOii, ov hoKeovT aX)C avrd' keovov irdv 
 
 crOevapov r iparov 6 , 
 ov y dira^ (fxovd KekdSrjore, jxevei tolctl (f)0)V7]cracnv, cure 
 Kpaivei i(])r]iJiepLa)v vTrovoLa<; 7rXet<TT09 aioiv. 
 vxl}L(f>pov €L Ti \iav, el 6ecrKe\ov (f)dvr) ^porol's, 
 ei o €pQ)<; TL<s yav TrpoKeLncDv TrkaC^eT err acuep , eTreixxfje ue(o 
 TOVT epacTTTjs (poeyix aotoo? t ' eu o airag ycrueTO 
 ueo's, aKovoLixev k er avope<s. 
 
 ei Be vvv ecr^dXixeO' , eirayyeXia avTcarpocfirj. 
 
 TovTo v'lKas ajxacTL avv reXeots. 'r)9\'r](Tajxev irov noWa fxapai- 
 
 vofxevoi' 
 ctXX' dvavhov ixrive'i a^a)(avia<; ttw? ov^ vfjiuov^ [xeWovcri TiKTeiv, 
 KOI TTodov dpixovLa<? eTTL^dcrai TrXi^ja/vteXetat ; 
 Sv(T(f)op6<; eariv dvia hv(T\vT6v re rctcrac^es' 
 TTo.? he Tt9 TO T ev pvOfxil^iov Kol TO KCLKov \akeei vocrecov 
 ecTTi o OL<s cppaC^ei ol ojto? Zev?* CTKOireiu , arepoL' 
 (jiafjiev eTTicTTCLcrOai jaeXwSot.
 
 1 4 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 Well, it is earth with me ; silence resumes her reign : 
 
 I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce. 
 Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again, 
 
 Sliding by semitones, till I sink to the minor, — yes. 
 And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground, 
 
 Surveying awhile the heights I rolled from into the deep ; 
 Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place 
 is found. 
 
 The C Major of this life : so, now I will try to sleep. 
 
 Browning.
 
 ABT VOGLER. 15 
 
 eiev i^dWa^a TTokiv ^OafxaXo^ criydv /BpefiovTo^ ovpavov' eVcoSo?. 
 TXaarofjiaL vxfji(f)p6voj<i. )(opScov, (^ip , opcratg dp^irvnov KeXaSov, 
 ^aUfXLCTLV (f)(i)V(op TTokv^ecTToicrL KaOiip^eve^, 
 KXivofxaL els dp/BX'uv tlv d^ov, rov irpXv CKySas rkppJ- dy afxau 
 
 Se Tea)<; 
 vpjuoiv Kopv(f)aq aX.' odeu KareveyOrjV ets aTreipov 
 dp^TTveo) Srj rXds roS' epheuv irXd^a p^eaav, 
 iXniSov KprjTnha /BpoTolq ^lotov vvv S' vttuov ykvo[JT laveiv.
 
 1 6 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 T I T H O N U S. 
 
 The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, 
 
 The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, 
 
 Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, 
 
 And after many a summer dies the swan. 
 
 Me only cruel immortality 
 
 Consumes : I wither slowly in thine arms, 
 
 Here at the quiet limit of the world, 
 
 A white-hair'd shadow roaming like a dream 
 
 The ever silent spaces of the East, 
 
 Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn.
 
 TITHONUS. 1 7 
 
 TITHONUS. 
 
 Marcescunt nemorum, nemorum labuntur honores, 
 roriferae deflent nubes, oriuntur et arvis 
 incumbunt subterque hominum defuncta recumbunt 
 saecla, nee aestates non deciduntur oloris. 
 solus ego immortale trahens aegerrimus aevom 
 carpor : inaresco, te complectente, quietum 
 limen ad hoc mundi, dum cana remetior umbra 
 secretas orientis imagine vanior aulas, 
 multiplices nebulas, sublustria templa diei. 
 
 J. T.
 
 1 8 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Alas ! for this gray shadow, once a man — 
 So glorious in his beauty and thy choice, 
 Who madest him thy chosen, that he seem'd 
 To his great heart none other than a God ! 
 I ask'd thee, ' Give me immortality.' 
 Then didst thou grant mine asking with a smile. 
 Like wealthy men who care not how they give. 
 But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, 
 And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me. 
 And though they could not end me, left me maim'd 
 To dwell in presence of immortal youth. 
 Immortal age beside immortal youth, 
 And all I was, in ashes. Can thy love. 
 Thy beauty, make amends, though even now, 
 Close over us, the silver star, thy guide. 
 Shines in those tremulous eyes that fill with tears 
 To hear me ? Let me go : take back thy gift : 
 Why should a man desire in any way 
 To vary from the kindly race of men. 
 Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance
 
 TIT H ONUS. 1 9 
 
 heu senis hanc umbram, prius e terrestribus unum 
 quom specie florens et te dignante cubili, 
 dignabaris enim, quicquid sublime minatus 
 quin darer in superos adeo nil rebar abesse ! 
 concilies, dixi, caelum mihi. blanda roganti 
 annuls : baud aliter terrae quoque plenior heres 
 largirique solet nee habere quod imputet illud. 
 sed rabiem explerunt ultrices acriter Horae 
 et stravere graves et mutavere terendo, 
 quodque necem citra poterant, deformis adessem 
 aeternae voluere iuventutique senectus 
 divinae divina, meae facis ipse superstes. 
 num vel amor tanti, pulcerrima ? sidere quanquam 
 dum loquor impendente, tuae duce lampadis albo, 
 suave coruscantes oculi miserantis abortis 
 stant lacrimis ? absolve, precor, retro exime donum. 
 cur velit humani generis transcendere quoquam 
 foedus homo aut sanctos ultra procedere fines ? 
 
 2 — 3
 
 20 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 Where all should pause, as is most meet for all ? 
 
 A soft air fans the cloud apart ; there comes 
 A glimpse of that dark world where I was born. 
 Once more the old mysterious glimmer steals 
 From thy pure brows, and from thy shoulders pure, 
 And bosom beating with a heart renew'd. 
 Thy cheek begins to redden through the gloom, 
 Thy sweet eyes brighten slowly close to mine, 
 Ere yet they blind the stars, and the wild team 
 Which love thee, yearning for thy yoke, arise, 
 And shake the darkness from their loosen'd manes, 
 And beat the twilight into flakes of fire. 
 
 Lo ! ever thus thou growest beautiful 
 In silence, then before thine answer given 
 Departest, and thy tears are on my cheek. 
 
 Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, 
 And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, 
 I n days far off, on that dark earth, be true ? 
 ' The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.' 
 
 Ay me ! ay me ! with what another heart,
 
 TITHONUS. 2 1 
 
 hie cunctis claudenda, hie clausa probabitur aetas. 
 intremuit zephyro nubes : hiemale meorum 
 
 4 
 
 nosco exul litus, senis incunabula nosco. 
 ecce tuo miror de vertice lumen oriri, 
 miror ab ambrosio non enarrabile collo, 
 miror rite novam sumentia pectora vitam. 
 iamque tepere genas sensim et splendescere cerno 
 instantis dulces oculos, necdum orbibus illi 
 astra hebetant plenis, necdum exultantia fervent 
 corda reposcentum sibi quae moderetur equorum, 
 effunduntque iubas ut opaca volumina currus 
 discutiat tenebrarum insultetque ignifer umbris. 
 
 en tua te quoties inter mea vota venustas 
 induit, expectans quid responsura moreris 
 deseror et lacrimis astans umector euntis. 
 
 quo lacrimis me usque exanimas ? quo me usque timentem 
 ne sit verum, angis, quod egeno lucis in aevo 
 nocte laborantum memini portendere famam, 
 ipsos, quae dederint, non posse resumere divos ? 
 
 hei mihi, quam non his oculis Tithonus inhaerens,
 
 2 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 In days far off, and with what other eyes 
 I used to watch — if I be he that watch'd — 
 The lucid outHne forming round thee ; saw 
 The dim curls kindle into sunny rings ; 
 Changed with thy mystic change, and felt my blood 
 Glow with the glow that slowly crimson'd all 
 Thy presence and thy portals, while I lay, 
 Mouth, forehead, eyelids, growing dewy-warm 
 With kisses balmier than half-opening buds 
 Of April, and could hear the lips that kiss'd 
 Whispering I knew not what of wild and sweet, 
 Like that strange song I heard Apollo sing, 
 While Ilion like a mist rose into towers. 
 
 Yet hold me not for ever in thine East : 
 How can my nature longer mix with thine ? 
 Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold 
 Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet 
 Upon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steam 
 Floats up from those dim fields about the homes 
 Of happy men that have the power to die,
 
 TITHONUS. 23 
 
 ille ego si spiro, quam non hoc corde tuebar 
 gliscere te cingens iubar et pallentis apricos 
 stare comis cirros miramque subire videbar 
 te subeunte vicem, penitus magis ossa calescens 
 quo portae magis et rubor ardescebat obortae ! 
 at tua labra mihi crebrum irrorantia nectar 
 OS frontemque dabant resupino et lumina circum 
 oscula quis vernae non germina suavius halant 
 semireducta rosae ; ,nec secius oscula figens 
 nescio quid dementis inexpertique canebas. 
 crescere sic Phoebi plusquam mortale recordor 
 carmen, at in turres nebulosam assurgere Troiam. 
 
 ne tamen aeternum his claustris orientis in aevom 
 saepiar : an leti fruar immortalibus heres 
 amplius? en roseis involvor frigidus umbris, 
 frigida candescunt tua limina, friget eoum 
 sub pede rugato limen, cum mane vapores 
 submittunt procul obscuro cingentia tractu 
 arva domos hominum, quis posse perire beatis
 
 24 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 And grassy barrows of the happier dead. 
 Release me, and restore me to the ground ; 
 Thou seest all things, thou wilt see my grave : 
 Thou wilt renew thy beauty morn by morn ; 
 I earth in earth forget these empty courts, 
 And thee returning on thy silver wheels. 
 
 Tennyson.
 
 TITHONUS. 25 
 
 contigit aut fato caespes potiore sepultis. 
 da moriar, da reddar humo : tu cetera lustras, 
 tu senis agnosces tumulum : reparabis honorem 
 tu, dea, quot redeunt luces : me terra recondet 
 terrenum : per me sileant haec templa licebit 
 tuque albis volvare revolvarisque quadrigis.
 
 26 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 Home they brought her warrior dead 
 She nor swoon'd, nor utter'd cry : 
 
 All her maidens, watching, said, 
 'She must weep or she will die.' 
 
 Then they praised him, soft and low, 
 Call'd him worthy to be loved, 
 
 Truest friend and noblest foe ; 
 
 Yet she neither spoke nor moved.
 
 SONG FROM ' THE PRINCESS.' 27 
 
 CARMEN. 
 
 Mortuus e bello sua fertur in atria miles : 
 
 nee fluit ad terram sponsa nee ore gemit : 
 aspieiunt unaque canunt haee voce puellae ; 
 
 a ! fleat — est lacrimis, ne moriatur, opus, 
 inde viri repetunt summisso murmure laudes : 
 
 dignus erat, narrant, quern sequeretur amor, 
 fidus amicitiis, ipsos generosus in hostes ; 
 
 ilia tamen nullos dat stupefaeta sonos.
 
 2 8 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Stole a maiden from her place, 
 
 Lightly to the warrior stept, 
 Took the face-cloth from the face ; 
 
 Yet she neither moved nor wept. 
 
 Rose a nurse of ninety years, 
 
 Set his child upon her knee — 
 Like summer tempest came her tears — 
 
 ' Sweet my child, I live for thee.' 
 
 Tennyson.
 
 SONG FROM ' THE PRINCESS! 29 
 
 provenit e mediis elapsa puella ministris, 
 
 fert levis ad feretrum qua iacet ille pedem ; 
 dimovet a rigido feralem sindoria voltu : 
 
 ilia tamen siccis torpet ut ante genis. 
 surgit anus denos novies emensa Decembres ; 
 
 in gremium pignus dat puerile viri : 
 imber ut aestivos rupit pia lacrima fontes ; 
 
 tu, puer, in vita cur morer, inquit, eris.
 
 30 TRANS LA TIONS. 
 
 WORCESTER. HOTSPUR. NORTHUMBERLAND. 
 
 WoR. Peace, cousin, say no more ! 
 
 And now I will unclasp a secret book, 
 And to your quick-conceiving discontents 
 I'll read you matter deep and dangerous, 
 As full of peril and adventurous spirit 
 As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud 
 On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. 
 
 Hot. If he fall in, good night! or sink or swim 
 Send danger from the east unto the west,
 
 HENRY IV. PARTI. Act I. Scene III. 31 
 
 ANAKTE2. 0PA5YMAXO2. 
 
 ANAS A. ev(f)r)[jLOv, <h ^vvaifxe, koCixlctov crrd/Aa* 
 
 heXrov S' dvoL^a^ vvv aTToppiJTOvs Trru^ag 
 TT/oos ixavOdveiv <^6dvovra<i cu? heSrjyfxevovs 
 /xeA-a/a/Sa^e? tl Trpdyo^ i^rjyujo'oixaL, 
 OepfMov 9^ oixoLO)^ KaTTLKLvhvPov Opdcrovs 
 ojcrirep ■^dpv/BSLv eKirepdv /Sapv/Bpofxov 
 hopo<s ye(f>vpo)dei(rai' dcTTdroi ySacret. 
 
 0PAS. VTOi y 6 TTiTTTOiV velv yap xf daveiv dKjXTJ' 
 
 an dvTo\S>v to Beivov i<s Suor/xa? d(f>e?,
 
 32 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 So honour cross it from the north to south, 
 And let them grapple : O, the blood more stirs 
 To rouse a lion than to start a hare ! 
 
 North. Imagination of some great exploit 
 
 Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. 
 
 Hot. By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap 
 
 To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, 
 
 Or dive into the bottom of the deep, 
 
 Where fathom-line could never touch the ground. 
 
 And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; 
 
 So he that doth redeem her thence might wear 
 
 Without corrival all her diofnities : 
 
 But out upon this half-faced fellowship ! 
 
 Shakespeare.
 
 HENRY IV. PARTI. Act I Scene III. 
 
 -1 '> 
 
 yyv y avTa(f)rj<s /Boppadev i<s votov K\eos, 
 TO) 8' ovv aixiWacrOoicrav' w? dveTTToiixrji' 
 \eovT iyelpoiv jxaXkop rj cfio/Bcjv Trrct/ca. 
 ANAH B. eoiKev avrjp €v0eo<s XafMupov TLvo<i 
 
 epyov <f)€p€(rdaL tov (f)poveLi' e^co SpafJLcov. 
 @. (o 9eoL, ToS' a)s TTTj^iqix av eif^epo)^ Sokco 
 nrjScov aeK.TJvT)'; apirdcrai r evZo^iav 
 ^pvarciiTT drr dpyvpoi-rro^, e? re ttovtlovs 
 /3vdov<s koXvjx/Bmv evOa jxr] KeXcrei (TrdOfJir] 
 KOfxcjv KaTaKkvcrOeicrav i^avaair dor at, 
 i(f)' 6J TOV iKacocravTa Tiqv TrafjiTryjcriav 
 Tt/A^9 aXvTTOu TOV ixeOi^ovTO^ (j>opeiv' 
 Tj 8' dix(f)LXeKTO<; ippeTO) Koivoivta. 
 
 J. T.
 
 34 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 THE DYING SWAN. 
 
 The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul 
 Of that waste place with joy 
 Hidden in sorrow : at first to the ear 
 The warble was low, and full and clear ; 
 And floating about the under sky, 
 Prevailing in weakness, the coronach stole 
 Sometimes afar, and sometimes anear ; 
 But anon her awful jubilant voice, 
 With a music strange and manifold, 
 Flow'd forth on a carol free and bold ;
 
 THE DYING SWAN. 35 
 
 OLOR MORIENS. 
 
 Quae loca ferali penitus dulcedine cantus 
 
 cepit olor moriens. primo summissa venire 
 
 murmura plorantis liquidoque arguta susurro, 
 
 dum vaga depressis humili sub nubibus ala 
 
 grassatur trepidando aut longe nenia serpens 
 
 aut propior : sed mox plenum increbrescere carmen 
 
 morte triumphantis, graviorque in sidera paean 
 
 mille rapi numeris et gloria fervere cantus : 
 
 3—2
 
 36 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 As when a mighty people rejoice 
 
 With shawms and with cymbals, and harps of gold, 
 
 And the tumult of their acclaim is roll'd 
 
 Thro' the open gates of the city afar, 
 
 To the shepherd who watcheth the evening star. 
 
 And the creeping mosses and clambering weeds, 
 
 And the willow-branches hoar and dank, 
 
 And the wavy swell of the soughing reeds, 
 
 And the wave-worn horns of the echoing bank. 
 
 And the silvery marish-flowers that throng 
 
 The desolate creeks and pools among, 
 
 Were flooded over with eddying song. 
 
 Tennyson.
 
 THE DYING SWAN. t,J 
 
 qualis ubi magno in populo si tympana festum 
 mixta tubis celebrant citharisque ^onatur et auro 
 it strepitus portis, et ovantia murmura volvi 
 vesperis exaudit tremulo sub lumine pastor, 
 iamque comas muscorum humiles herbaeque sequacis 
 gramina, iam canis saliceta madentia ramis, 
 quaeque terunt fluctus resonantis cornua ripae, 
 quaeque sinus vastos desolatasque paludes 
 innumero decorant argentea lilia coetu, 
 obruit exundans numeroso gurgite carmen.
 
 3 8 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Silence. 
 
 They seem'd to those who saw them meet 
 
 The worldly friends of every day : 
 
 Her smile was undisturbed and sweet, 
 
 His courtesy was free and gay : 
 
 But yet, if one the other's name 
 
 In some unguarded moment heard, 
 
 The heart you thought so calm and tame, 
 
 Would struggle like a captur'd bird ; 
 
 And letters of mere formal phrase 
 
 Were blister'd with repeated tears.
 
 SILENCE. 39 
 
 Silebant. 
 
 Verba serunt Isti, poteras conviva putare, 
 
 convivae volgo qualia forte serunt : 
 ilia nihil trepidum, nil triste prementis ad instar 
 
 ridet ; in urbanos par vacat ille sales, 
 si tamen alterius non praevigilantis ad aurem 
 
 alterius nomen vox inopina tulit, 
 tarn, reor, apta iugo, tarn scilicet inscia flammae 
 
 corda micant qualis capta columba micat : 
 quaeque salutantis frigebat epistola nugis 
 
 plus semel affusa tabuerat lacrima.
 
 40 TRANS LA TIONS. 
 
 And this was not the work of days, 
 But had gone on for years and years. 
 Alas, that Love was not too strong 
 For maiden shame and manly pride ! 
 Alas, that they delay 'd so long 
 The goal of mutual bliss beside ! 
 Yet, what no chance could then reveal. 
 And neither would be first to own, 
 Let fate and courage now conceal, 
 When truth could bring remorse alone. 
 
 Lord Houghton.
 
 SILENCE. 41 
 
 nee brevium spatio mens venerat ilia dierum ; 
 
 creverat annorum lentus amaror opus, 
 digna viro gravitas pudor o si virgine dignus 
 
 obstabant, utinam praevaluisset amor ! 
 o utinam voti stantes iam fine sub ipso 
 
 ivissent positis quo voluere moris ! 
 quod tamen baud usquam fors tempestiva reclusit, 
 
 quodque prior fari segnis uterque fuit, 
 id sua fata tegant, id fortia corda recondant, 
 
 ne pigeat frustra dissimulata loqui.
 
 4 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 FEDALMA. ZARCA. 
 
 No, no — I will not say it — I will go ! 
 Father, I choose ! I will not take a heaven 
 Haunted by shrieks of far-off misery. 
 This deed and I have ripened with the hours : 
 It is a part of me — a wakened thought 
 That, rising like a giant, masters me, 
 And grows into a doom. O mother life, 
 That seemed to nourish me so tenderly, 
 Even in the womb you vowed me to the fire, 
 Hung on my soul the burden of men's hopes. 
 And pledged me to redeem. — I'll pay the debt! 
 You gave me strength that I should pour it all
 
 THE SPANISH GYPSY. 43 
 
 $EIAAAMH. SAPKHS. 
 
 q>. /at) OTjT • epo) TOO ovnoT ' aAA a/x exfjoixai. 
 irdrep, SeSoKxaf /xryS' ttrry ^wi^i' ^eot? 
 ^picrcrovcra kcokvtoIctlv eKTOirov Svr^s. 
 e/Aot yap epyov (TvvTp6(j)a)q rdS' 'qKjxao'ev 
 019 avfXTre^vKO^' ov ixeXrjfi iyprjyopos 
 yiya^ rt? w? TTavrap^ov alperai ^pei^wi/, 
 hiKTjv dvdyKrj<; jSpldov cu ^cutJ? ydpoq 
 fJLTjTpcoov, 0) So^acrd fx rjiriox; rpe^eiv, 
 Kav yacTTpi [x ovcrav irvp ap ajpuaas nepdv, 
 ^VXV^ S' dtrapTOia eX77tSa9 TroW(iiv /xtas 
 reKeiv KaTriyyvr)aa<^' cocnrep ovv reko). 
 (T0euos yap el fxoL Soucr' tV iy^ianxi irdv
 
 44 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 Into this anguish, I can never shrink 
 
 Back into bliss — my heart has grown too big 
 
 With things that might be. Father, I will go. 
 
 O Father, will the women of our tribe 
 
 Suffer as I do in the years to come 
 
 When you have made them great in Africa ? 
 
 Redeemed from ignorant ills only to feel 
 
 A conscious woe } Then — is it worth the pains ? 
 
 Were it not better when we reach that shore 
 
 To raise a funeral pile and perish all } 
 
 So closing up a myriad avenues 
 
 To misery yet un wrought ? My soul is faint — 
 
 Will these sharp pains buy any certain good ? 
 
 Zarca. Nay, never falter : no great deed is done 
 
 By falterers who wish for certainty. 
 
 No good is certain, but the steadfast mind. 
 
 The undivided will to seek the good : 
 
 The greatest gift the hero leaves his race, 
 
 Is to have been a hero. 
 
 George Eliot.
 
 THE SPANISH GYPSY. 45 
 
 ets Tiqvh^ dviav ovh^ av ets <TTevr)v yapav 
 Bvfxov KaTKr^dvaLyi er' i^coyKcoixeuov 
 €po)TL Tov ixeWovTO<s- exjjofjiai,' narep. 
 17 ^drepat?, yevvrjTop, i[xcj)v\(ov fjLeuei 
 efjiol<s L(T dvTXelv Koi yieTavOi^ aXyecriv, 
 ehpSiv Kparovorai';, ar)v SoaLv, Al^vo-tlkcov ; 
 i^ aryvoovaoiv 17 ^ui^etSvtat? Tpi^eiv 
 XwTTas TTapedTai ; Kara hpdv npovpyov rdoe ; 
 ov Kpelcraov aKTrjv ty/xeVot? ALfivcrTLK-qv 
 KOLvfj TTvpdv vrjcracTLv e^oXoikivai, 
 dvqpidfJLOV^ eip^aai irpoa^oXa^ KaKotv 
 fJLTJTTO) (f)aveuTO)P ; (f)ev' (j)peu ws fiapvvoixat' 
 fi(t)v KepSos oiSt? ijjLTToXa TTiKpd aa(f}€<s ; 
 H. p^yj vvv OKV-qarj^i piqhev &>? ocrot aa(f)rj 
 TToOovvres OKVova ovSev alpovTai peya. 
 craves yap dyaSov (f)pr)v dKLvr)To<; povov, 
 CTTTO vSt7 t dKpaL(f)vr)9 rdydO' i^LyvodKOTTeiv. 
 XetVei S' 6 Spda-a<; Xapirpd rots €p(j)vXLOL^ 
 TOVT avTo XcoaTov, Xapirpd kol oeopaKevai.
 
 46 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 Dost thou look back ? 
 
 Dost thou look back on what hath been, 
 As some divinely-gifted man, 
 Whose life in low estate began 
 
 And on a simple village green ; 
 
 Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, 
 And grasps the skirts of happy chance, 
 And breasts the blows of circumstance, 
 
 And grapples with his evil star : 
 
 Who makes by force his merit known, 
 And lives to clutch the golden keys. 
 To mould a mighty state's decrees. 
 
 And shape the whisper of the throne :
 
 IN MEMORIAM, Stanza LXIII. 47 
 
 Ut meminit nostri? 
 
 Terraene caelo perfrueris memor, 
 qualem insiti divinitus ingeni 
 dotes in angustis foventem 
 pauperies tulit arta pagi : 
 
 qui vincit obstans immerito genus, 
 praetervolanti se citus applicat 
 Fortunae et adversis repugnat 
 sideris impatiens iniqui : 
 
 vim donee instans protulit igneam, 
 et clave tandem praeditus aurea 
 Stat Roma quid decernat auctor, 
 quo patribus sonet ore Caesar
 
 48 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 And moving up from high to higher, 
 Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope 
 The pillar of a people's hope, 
 
 The centre of a world's desire ; 
 
 Yet feels as in a pensive dream, 
 
 When all his active powers are still, 
 A distant dearness in the hill, 
 
 A secret sweetness in the stream, 
 
 The limit of his narrower fate, 
 While yet beside its vocal springs 
 He play'd at counsellors and kings, 
 
 With one that was his earliest mate ; 
 
 Who ploughs with toil his native lea. 
 
 And reaps the labour of his hands, 
 
 Or in the furrow musing stands ; 
 
 ' Does my old friend remember me ? ' 
 
 Tennyson.
 
 IN MEMORIAM, Stanza LXIII. 49 
 
 mox arce rerum semper in altius 
 tendens resistit, publica civium 
 tutela, quern sperans in uno* 
 sollicitus veneratur orbis. 
 
 idem remissis est ubi viribus 
 collem quieta deses imagine 
 requirit Arpinum, requirit 
 dulcis adhuc saliceta rivi, 
 
 angustiorum limitis artium, 
 donee canoris accola fontibus 
 reges senatoresque primi 
 cum socio simulabat aevi : 
 
 qui sulcat aegre rus patrium, metens 
 quos sevit agros, aut patitur boves 
 cessare, dum secum : meine 
 forte vetus meminit sodalis ? 
 
 J. T.
 
 50 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 TIMON. 
 
 Yet thanks I must you con, 
 
 That you are thieves profess'd, that you work not 
 
 In holier shapes: for there is boundless theft 
 
 In limited professions. Rascal thieves, 
 
 Here's gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o' the grape. 
 
 Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth, 
 
 And so 'scape hanging ; trust not the physician ; 
 
 His antidotes are poison, and he slays 
 
 More than you rob ; take wealth and lives together ; 
 
 Do villany, do, since you protest to do't.
 
 TIMON OF ATHENS, Act IV. Scene III. 51 
 
 TIMON. 
 
 et ixiqv TLV aKKa rovoe /x eioevai )(apiv, 
 01 y €K Trpoorjkov KkenTeT ovoe TacrepeLU 
 0)9 eucreySet? dcr/cetre- rat? yap ivvop^oi^ 
 T€)(va)v eTTovTat ixvpL0TT\rj6ei<i Kkonai. 
 oh\ (o iravovpyoL, ^i^pfcrd?- 'dp per , dixTreXov 
 ai\x ogv Kapr eKiriveu , ojott aKfxr) <pKoyo<i 
 t^eovra TreXavov e^a<^pit,e(T6ai ^Xe^oiv, 
 atSou KpeixacTTOv cf)ev^LV' larpS 8' oVws 
 Treicrecrde fXTj^ev oXoa yap ra (f)dpfxaKa, 
 KTelvei Se TrXetov? /cett'o? '^ crvka acXottcu?. 
 ou;)( 0U9 (XTToarTepeLTe Ka^oXeld^ dna^, 
 fjLTjS^ rjv inayyeXXearde ^eipova^iav 
 
 4—2
 
 52 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery : 
 
 The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction 
 
 Robs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief, 
 
 And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : 
 
 The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves 
 
 The moon into salt tears : the earth's a thief, 
 
 That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen 
 
 From general excrement ; each thing's a thief; 
 
 The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power 
 
 Have uncheck'd theft. 
 
 Shakespeare.
 
 TIM ON OF ATHENS, Act IV. Scene III 
 
 Xpujcrecrd are^vw ; /cat m avyKXenTovT ipoi- 
 KkoTTev^ 6 ^oljSo's, 09 y' aX' daiTeTou ttoXv? 
 e\K(ov (jLapaLver ravTo S' ovk o^XiarKavei 
 ^OL^ov creXrjvr) -^(Xojpov apirdt^ovaa <^a>? ; 
 /cXeTTTet oe tt6vto<^ aXixvpov p.rjvrjq SaKpv 
 TTjKcop vypo) kXvScovl' T(o Se 8pa>a laov 
 yrj 7ravTO(j>vpTov /cXe/x/^ia irayKoivov (TKaTO^ 
 Kvei po(f)ov(Ta' KovBev eorO' ottoIov ov 
 KXenreL' ^aXLvo<; aurt^' ol vojxol /cXotttJ? 
 fidcTTii T e)(ov(T dnetpov av0aheL<s KXoTnju.
 
 54 TRANS LA TIONS. 
 
 Tears, idle tears. 
 
 Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, 
 Tears from the depth of some divine despair 
 Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. 
 In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, 
 And thinking of the days that are no more. 
 
 Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, 
 That brings our friends up from the underworld, 
 Sad as the last which reddens over one 
 That sinks with all we love below the verge ; 
 So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
 
 TEARS, IDLE TEARS. 55 
 
 Desiderium, 
 
 O lacrimae, lacrlmae, quo numine miror, inanes, 
 nescio quid lacrimae plusquam mortale sequentes 
 ingenti desiderio, nascuntur in imo 
 corde, rigant oculos, simul aurea messibus arva 
 conspicor et lapsos revoco sub pectore soles. 
 
 quale novom velo iubar albescente renidet, 
 devexis cui forte sui redduntur ab austris ; 
 quale iubar maestis supremum navis inaurat 
 carbasa, dimidium vitae abscondentis in aequor ; 
 tarn veteri manet albus honor, tarn lugubris aevo.
 
 56 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns 
 
 The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds 
 
 To dying ears, when unto dying eyes 
 
 The casement slowly grows a glimmering square ; 
 
 So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. 
 
 Tennyson.
 
 TEARS, IDLE TEARS. 57 
 
 ac veluti dubiis sub lucem aestate tenebris 
 fit vigilum male nidorum vagitus ; at aegro 
 auscultat sensu moriens, cui lumina cernunt 
 sublustrem iam stare magis magis aegra fenestram ; 
 tarn lapsi subit aegra die, tarn tristis imago.
 
 58 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 STANZAS. 
 
 In a drear-nighted December, 
 
 Too happy, happy tree, 
 
 Thy branches ne'er remember 
 
 Their green felicity ; 
 
 The north cannot undo them, 
 
 With a sleety whistle through them, 
 
 Nor frozen thawings glue them 
 
 From budding at the prime. 
 
 In a drear-nighted December, 
 Too happy, happy brook. 
 Thy bubblings ne'er remember, 
 Apollo's summer-look ;
 
 IN A DREAR-NIGHTED DECEMBER. 59 
 
 CARMEN. 
 
 Horreant, arbos, tenebrae Decembris ; 
 at, quater fausto love, te vietam 
 nulla fortunae speciosioris 
 
 cura remordet. 
 sibilans tutis aquilo minatur 
 grandinem ramis : male pertinaci 
 stringit amplexu glacialis umor 
 
 vere novandos. 
 
 rive, contristet fera bruma noctes ; 
 tu tamen, dulci nimis use fato, 
 immemor spumas calido decori 
 sidere Phoebi :
 
 6o TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 But with a sweet forgetting 
 They stay their crystal fretting, 
 Never, never petting 
 About the frozen time. 
 
 Ah ! would 'twere so with many 
 A gentle girl and boy ! 
 But were there ever any 
 Writhed not at passed joy ? 
 To know the change and feel it, 
 When there is none to heal it, 
 Nor numbed sense to steal it — 
 Was never said in rhyme. 
 
 Keats.
 
 IN A DREAR-NIGHTED DECEMBER. 6i 
 
 tu remulcentis patiens veterni 
 vitrea parcis trepidare lympha, 
 nescius pigrae vicis insolenter 
 ferre catenam. 
 
 virgines o si iuvenesque nuper 
 fervidi Lethen biberent eandem ! 
 sed quis angori moderetur orbus 
 
 deliciarum ? 
 ' unde quo veni ? ' dolor ingementis, 
 nulla quern vincit medicina, nullus 
 decipit torpor, quibus exprimatur 
 
 carmina quaerit.
 
 62 TEA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 DARKNESS. 
 
 I had a dream, which was not all a dream. 
 
 The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars 
 
 Did wander darkling in the eternal space, 
 
 Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth 
 
 Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; 
 
 Morn came and went — and came, and brought no day. 
 
 The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still, 
 And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; 
 Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
 
 DARKNESS. 63 
 
 ^KOTOI. 
 
 oveipov elSoi' w tl KaK 6eov Trpoarrjv 
 <^Xo^ yfkiov yap e^Oir , inXavaTo Be 
 aKOTOv hehopKOT acrrpa TrpoiTap^oi \d.ei 
 dpLavp, d^ovKoXrjTa' yrj 8' eVaXX-ero 
 KpvaTakkoTrr}^ /car' alBep ov ixyji/r}'; vno 
 TVcfiXij, Kekaivwdeicra' (j)ojo'(f)6po<i 8' eoj? 
 Bie^oSoLorLV ov ^vveLned' rjfjLepcov. 
 iqvBov Se \tfxvai, peWpd 9' y]vS\ r)v8ei' ©eVt?, 
 '^v 8' ovSev dxfj6(f)OL(TLP eix\\fV')(ov I3v0ol<s' 
 vrjes 8' icrrfTTOvd^, (dctt aTTOifjiduTov (TKd(f)ov^
 
 64 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 And their masts fell down piece-meal : as they dropp'd 
 
 They slept on the abyss without a surge — 
 
 The waves were dead : the tides were in their grave, 
 
 The moon, their mistress, had expired before ; 
 
 The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, 
 
 And the clouds perish'd ! Darkness had no need 
 
 Of aid from them — She was the Universe. 
 
 Lord Byron.
 
 DARKNESS. 6[ 
 
 craBpov Karappelv Icttov, 69 /cara/o^ovets 
 
 avTov Bakdcrcrr) pr^vefio) Koifxit^eTai. 
 
 ovK -qv kXvScjv €T , ov TTokippoia craXov, 
 
 fJLtjvr) davovoTTj ^vvBavovaa Kvpia,' 
 
 e^pit,e 8' aWr)p Tracrav avdva^ ttpotJv, 
 
 cfipovSat T€ ve(f)eXai' crvyiixd^oiv yap ovk eoet 
 
 TovT(ov rvpavvevovra rov 7ravTo<; ctkotov. 
 
 J. T.
 
 66 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 Many a year is in its grave. 
 
 Many a year is in its grave 
 Since I cross'd this restless wave ; 
 And the evening, fair as ever, 
 Shines on ruin, rock and river. 
 
 Then in this same boat beside, 
 Sat two comrades, old and tried ; 
 One, with all a father's truth ; 
 One, with all the fire of youth.
 
 FROM LONGFELLOW'S ' HYPERLON! 67 
 
 Umbrae. 
 
 Plurima iam periit volvendis mensibus aestas 
 
 mobilis ut nostram transtulit unda ratem : 
 nee iuga nunc alia tingit dulcedine vesper, 
 
 cana situ tingit moenia, tingit aquas, 
 turn geminos notaeque fide veterisque sodales 
 
 non aliud mecum cymba ferebat iter : 
 alter in officiis constans mihi paene paternis ; 
 
 ut iuvenes fervent, fervidus alter erat. 
 
 5—2
 
 68 T RAN SLA TIONS. 
 
 One on earth in silence wrought, 
 And his grave in silence sought : 
 But the younger, brighter form 
 Passed in battle and in storm. 
 
 So, whene'er I turn my eye 
 
 Back upon the days gone by. 
 
 Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me,- 
 
 Friends who closed their course before me. 
 
 Yet what binds us friend to friend 
 But that soul with soul can blend ? 
 Soul-like were those hours of yore — 
 Let us walk in soul once more ! 
 
 Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee — 
 
 Take, I give it willingly ; 
 
 For, invisible to thee, 
 
 Spirits twain have crossed with me. 
 
 Longfellow.
 
 FROM LONGFELLOW'S 'HYPERLON: 69 
 
 alterius tacltos exhausit vita labores, 
 
 exhaustum taclta morte reliquit opus : 
 sed puer ille ferox et ovans volitare per ora 
 
 martis ab horrisonis fugit in astra minis, 
 sic lapsi quoties sub corde remetior aevi 
 
 tempora praeteritos respicioque dies, 
 tristis amicorum viduo succurrit imago, 
 
 quis prior obvenit quam mihi meta viae, 
 quid tamen est aliud quod amico nectat amicum 
 
 quam quod mente potest mens propiore frui ? 
 viximus ut vivont exutae corpora mentes : 
 
 mentibus hie etiam quid vetat ire pares ? 
 ivimus — at triplex tu, portitor, accipe naulum, 
 
 accipe non segni dona repensa manu : 
 scilicet una lacum transibat et altera mecum, 
 
 sic tamen ut visus falleret umbra tuos.
 
 70 TRA NSL A TfONS. 
 
 BRUTUS. 
 
 It must be by his death : and for my part, 
 
 I know no personal cause to spurn at him, 
 
 But for the general. He would be crown'd : 
 
 How that might change his nature, there's the question. 
 
 It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; 
 
 And that craves wary walking. Crown him ? — that ; — 
 
 And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, 
 
 That at his will he may do danger with. 
 
 The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins
 
 JULIUS Cy^SAR, Act II. Scene L 71 
 
 BPOYTOS. 
 
 ^ova. TO TvpayfjLa' kot efxoLy avrjp Sokel 
 KoXaajxa XaKndTrjTov ovk 6(j)\LaKdveiv, 
 el fiT] TL rot? irkeicrroicn. Koipaveiv ipa,' 
 jxeXXcov TL Trdcr^eiv ; tovto Srj /^rjTrjreov. 
 TT^dcreiXo? rj y e^iSvct rot (f)avTd^eTaL, 
 iv €vXa^eicr$ai rot? oSotTTopot? dKjxrj. 
 Kal hi] Tvpavvof; yeyove' y(aipeTO} ttoXis* 
 KevTpov yap elrj ra>S' dv, ovkct dvTepoi, 
 evoeiQ- 0T(p ovvauT av ov? oekoL oaKveiv. 
 
 Sin V \ vo '^ » « V I 
 
 tacpuopa yap rjoe T'r)<; ap^^rjs e(pv 
 
 iv (O TOP OLKTOV TOV KpdTovq i^(x>pL<jev'
 
 7 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Remorse from power : and, to speak truth of Caesar, 
 I have not known when his affections sway'd 
 More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof. 
 That lowHness is young ambition's ladder, 
 Whereto the cHmber upward turns his face : 
 But when he once attains the upmost round, 
 He then unto the ladder turns his back, 
 Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees 
 By which he did ascend. So Csesar may ; 
 Then, lest he may, prevent. 
 
 Shakespeare.
 
 JULIUS C^SAR, Acr II. Scene I j^ 
 
 iKiiaprvprjcra) S' ovk IZcuv rw Katcra/ai 
 yvoiixrj<i TTOT alho) Kpelacrov l(T\ovcrav poTnju. 
 KaLTOL dap! rjv evhr)\os 17 raTreivoTiq^; 
 Kklpd^ TL<s over' ap^ovTL peitfivoiv ipav, 
 Trpos rjv Tt9 ioTTijpL^ev dp/Sdrrj^; Koipa' 
 OLKpov Se ^aOpov ov <j)ddveL KaTacr^edajv 
 Kol vojTLcra^ rr)V KkipaK elr dTT€(TTpd(f>r], 
 perdpcnov r e^Xexpev, ats iiriqKpiorev 
 i^ci}pidt,oiv SovXtous TTpocrap/BdcreL^. 
 a Kav TTOLyjaaL Kalcrap' aXX' eipy^iv to p.ij.
 
 74 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 The Genius of the Wood. 
 
 I. 
 
 O'er the smooth enamell'd green, 
 Where no print of foot hath been, 
 
 Follow me, as I sing 
 
 And touch the warbled string : 
 Under the shady roof 
 Of branching elm, star-proof. 
 
 Follow me : 
 I will bring you where she sits 
 Clad in splendour as befits 
 
 Her deity : 
 Such a rural queen 
 All Arcadia hath not seen.
 
 SONG FROM MILTON'S 'ARCADES.' 75 
 
 SiLVANUS. 
 
 Qua gemmis nitet integrum 
 
 gramen, nee viridi pes nocuit solo, 
 mecum pergite, dum meis 
 
 subtiles modulor carminibus fides, 
 ulmos sub patulas, nemus 
 
 astrorum radiis impenetrabile. 
 ducam qua solium tenet 
 
 dignis ilia suo numine vestibus 
 splendens : nee dea rustieos 
 
 hac unquam tenuit pulerior Areadas.
 
 76 TRANS LA T/ONS. 
 
 II. 
 
 Nymphs and shepherds, dance no more 
 
 By sandy Ladon's Hlied banks, 
 On old Lycseus or Cyllene hoar 
 
 Trip no more in twihght ranks : 
 Though Erymanth your loss deplore 
 
 A better soil shall give ye thanks. 
 From the stony Maenalus 
 Bring your flocks and live with us : 
 Here ye shall have greater grace 
 To serve the lady of this place ; 
 Though Syrinx your Pan's mistress were, 
 Yet Syrinx well might wait on her : 
 
 Such a rural queen 
 
 All Arcadia hath not seen. 
 
 Milton.
 
 SONG FROM MIL TON'S 'ARCADES.' 77 
 
 vos, nymphae et pecorum duces, 
 
 neu Lado choreas nectere gaudeat 
 praetexens vada liliis, 
 
 neu Pani videant sacra cacumina 
 Cylleneve diutius 
 
 incertum trepidos ad iubar ordines. 
 vos arces Erymanthiae 
 
 plorent, dum melior det plaga gratiam, 
 vestras Maenaleis procul 
 
 saxis his pecudes addite pascuis : 
 hie nostri nemoris dea 
 
 cultorum veniet lenior agmini. 
 ut vestro placeat deo 
 
 Syrinx, iure tamen pareat huic erae 
 Syrinx : nee dea rusticos 
 
 hac unquam tenuit pulcrior Arcadas.
 
 yS TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 Ode. 
 
 I. 
 
 The merchant, to conceal his treasure, 
 Conveys it in a borrow'd name, 
 
 Euphelia serves to grace my measure. 
 But Cloe is my real flame. 
 
 II. 
 
 My softest verse, my darling lyre 
 
 Upon Euphelia's toilet lay. 
 When Cloe noted her desire 
 
 That I should sing, that I should play.
 
 FROM PRIOR. 79 
 
 Ad Chloen. 
 
 Ut proprias ficto qui mittunt nomine merces 
 
 dumque opibus metuont infitiantur opes, 
 sic in amore Chloes Glycerae mentimur amorem : 
 
 haec speciem confert versibus, ilia facem. 
 nugor apud Glyceram : mecum lyra cessat ibidem, 
 
 apta satis domini questibus, apta dolis : 
 versiculos idem attuleram non melle carentes : 
 
 forte rogat, nectam verba modosque, Chloe.
 
 8o TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 III. 
 
 My lyre I tune, my voice I raise, 
 
 And with my numbers mix my sighs ; 
 
 And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise, 
 I fix my soul on Cloe's eyes. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Fair Cloe blush'd : Euphelia frown'd : 
 
 I sung and gazed ; I play'd and trembled : 
 
 And Venus to the Loves around 
 Remark'd how ill we all dissembled. 
 
 Prior.
 
 FROM PRIOR. 8 1 
 
 nee mora, praeludo fidibus, cantare paratus : 
 
 spirat amor, spirat mixtus amore timor. 
 ast ita de Glycera quod bellum est cumque loquebar 
 
 ut colerem voltu plura loquente Chloen. 
 nee eolor huic unus nee frons innubila laesae : 
 
 ipse queror, stupeo, blandior, uror, amo. 
 at Venus irridens dum multa ioeantur Amores, 
 
 istud ut infabre dissimulatur ! ait. 
 
 J. T.
 
 8 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 ASIA. 
 
 He gave men speech, and speech created thought, 
 
 Which is the measure of the universe ; 
 
 And Science struck the thrones of earth and heaven. 
 
 Which shook, but fell not ; and the harmonious mind 
 
 Pour'd itself forth in all-prophetic song : 
 
 And music lifted up the listening spirit 
 
 Until it walk'd, exempt from mortal care, 
 
 Godlike, o'er the clear billows of sweet sound ; 
 
 And human hands first mimick'd and then mocked. 
 
 With moulded limbs more lovely than its own,
 
 FROM SHELLEY'S 'PROMETHEUS UNBOUND! ^% 
 
 ASIA. 
 
 (^idoyy'qv l3poTol<i eScoAce ko-k (fydoyyrjs ttoXiv 
 e/3\a(TTe tov ^vfiTrapTo^ eu {xeTpov \6yos' 
 %o(f)La S' eWr^Xus yrj<5 re kol Oecov 0p6vov<; 
 €(T€Lcrev ov (T(f)a\evTa's' evpvOfjios Se (fiprjv 
 ineSpafx vjxvayv dva^oXas \^pr}(Trr)ptov<s, 
 [xeXcpoiaLaiv oidT avaTrrepovixevov 
 dvrjToJv Tiv e^(o ^vfJL(f)op(^v deov hiKrjv 
 fiaiveiv e^' vypoi^ Kvfxacnv Tepnvov /xeX.ov9. 
 Koi Brj TeXevTCJV etSo? ecTKcoxpev jSpoTOJV 
 b TovB virep^aivovcrav iK paixovpievr)^ 
 
 6—2
 
 84 r RAN SLA TIONS. 
 
 The human form, till marble grew divine, 
 
 And mothers, gazing, drank the love men see 
 
 Reflected in their race, behold, and perish. 
 
 He told the hidden power of herbs and springs, 
 
 And Disease drank and slept. Death grew like Sleep. 
 
 He taught the implicated orbits woven 
 
 Of the wide-wandering stars ; and how the sun 
 
 Changes his lair, and by what secret spell 
 
 The pale moon is transform'd, when her broad eye 
 
 Gazes not on the interlunar sea. 
 
 He taught to rule, as life directs the limbs. 
 
 The tempest-winged chariots of the ocean. 
 
 And the Celt knew the Indian. Cities then 
 
 Were built, and through their snow-white columns flow'd 
 
 The warm winds, and the azure aether shone, 
 
 And the blue sea and shadowy hills were seen. 
 
 Such, the alleviations of his state, 
 
 Prometheus gave to man ; for which he hangs 
 
 Withering in destin'd pain. 
 
 Shelley.
 
 FROM SHELLEY'S 'PROMETHEUS UNBOUND! 85 
 
 IJLop(f>r)v htapOpaJv 1<to0€Ol<s rvKiajxacrLV, 
 div KctXXos at yvvaiKe^ ivOvfiovfjiepaL 
 eTLKTOU a9 TL<S OVK l8(ov oktcTKeTaL ; 
 eSet^e 8' avrots tolk cfivrcjv Kpriuajv t a/07, 
 alpel 8e tovs 7rLvovTa<; i^ aXyovs v7rvo<s, 
 VTTVov he 6dvaTo<; i^ofxoLOVTaL tp6ttol<;. 
 7To\vTrXdv(ov 8' et^joa^e crv/ATrcTrXeyjaeVas 
 a<jTpo)v Ke\ev6ov<; aTpo(f>dBa<i, tJXlov 6\ odev 
 Tiv ep)(erai Kevd/xc^va, kol jxtJv'Y]<; kvkKov, 
 TTOtat? eTToiSat? oj-^pca /CT^XovjU.ei'o? 
 ireXdyoVi ava.vyrjTOKjLV ev jLieTaXXayat?. 
 XivoTTTep ovv o^-qp.ar e/xi//v^ots tcra 
 Tt9 aXXos i^riyrjcraT olaKocrT po(j)eiv ; 
 eyvdi 8e KeXri^? ^Ii^Sof. elra 7rkLvdv<f)rj 
 rjv aradfjid, XevKr^u 8' evaets irapaaTdha 
 oifjcraoi' avpat, Kvdveo^ 8' oj(f)6r) ttoXos 
 TTOVTov re yXav/coj' /cC/x' vttoctkloi, t aKpai. 
 roiavT d(j>€pTov haip.ovo<; Kov(f)[(TfJLaTa 
 fipoTOL<; Tlpopjiqdev<i r)vpeu, wv fxeTdpcTLOs 
 rat? fJLOLpoKpdi>TOL<i Trr)ixoval<; avaiveTai.
 
 86 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 On an Early Death. 
 
 A PEARLY dew-drop see some flower adorn 
 And grace with tender beam the rising morn ; 
 But soon the sun permits a fiercer ray, 
 And the fair fabric rushes to decay. 
 Lo, in the dust the beauteous ruin lies ; 
 And the pure vapour seeks its native skies. 
 A fate Hke this to thee, sweet boy, was given — 
 To sparkle, bloom and be exhaled to heaven. 
 
 Lord Byron.
 
 LINES ON AN EARLY DEATH. 87 
 
 Elegia. 
 
 Nonne vides, luci quo pulcrior adsit origo, 
 
 roscidus ut violae suave renidet honos ? 
 mox simul indulget nimio sol fervidus igni 
 
 Candida festinat veris alumna mori. 
 sternitur, a, media quam non inhonesta ruina ! 
 
 halitus in caelum fragrat abitque suum. 
 par tibi sors, miserande puer : sic gratia fulsit, 
 
 mellea sic animae redditur aura lovi.
 
 88 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 Ode. 
 
 Awake, Aeolian Lyre, awake ! 
 
 And give to rapture all thy trembling strings ; 
 
 From Helicon's harmonious springs 
 A thousand rills their mazy progress take : 
 The laughing flowers that round them blow 
 Drink life and fragrance as they flow. 
 Now the rich stream of music winds along 
 Deep, majestic, smooth and strong. 
 Through verdant vales and Ceres' golden reign :
 
 FROM GRAY'S 'PROGRESS OF POESY! 89 
 
 Ad barbiton. 
 
 Accende cantus, barbite, Lesbios, 
 praesentioris conscia numinis 
 accende sopitos calores : 
 mille fluont Heliconis orti 
 puro scatentis carmine fontibus 
 rivi vagantes, daedala quos humus 
 praetexit errantum renidens 
 ducere nectareos odores. 
 nunc, leve marmor, Pierium melos 
 alto quietum flumine labitur 
 valles per umbrosas et agros 
 auricomae Cereri subactos :
 
 90 TRANS LA TIONS. 
 
 Now rolling down the steep amain 
 
 Headlong, impetuous, see it pour ; 
 
 The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar. 
 
 O sovereign of the willing soul, 
 
 Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs, 
 
 Enchanting Shell ! the sullen Cares 
 And frantic Passions hear thy soft control. 
 On Thracia's hills the Lord of War 
 Has curb'd the fury of his car, 
 And dropt his thirsty lance at thy command : 
 Perching on the sceptred hand 
 Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king 
 With ruffled plumes and flagging wing : 
 Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie 
 The terror of his beak and lightnings of his eye. 
 
 Gray.
 
 FROM GRAY'S 'PROGRESS OF POESY.' 91 
 
 nunc a iugorum culmine proruens 
 insanienti gurgitis impetu 
 defertur : immugit rulna 
 rupibus et nemori corusco. 
 o grata menti, non humilis sciens, 
 regina, cantus, tu potes igneos 
 lenire, testudo, furores, 
 
 difficilem potes, alma, curam : 
 quin et iubenti Threicius tibi 
 frenat volantes Armipotens equos 
 hastamque ponit gestientem 
 purpureos agitare rivos : 
 regi volucrum tu lovis in manu, 
 dum torpet ala languidus horrida, 
 blandire, trux rostrum soporis 
 nube premens oculique fulmen.
 
 9 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Prince Arthur. Hubert. 
 
 Have you the heart ? When your head did but ache, 
 
 I knit my handkerchief about your brows, 
 
 (The best I had, a princess wrought it me,) 
 
 And I did never ask it you again : 
 
 And with my hand at midnight held your head ; 
 
 And, Hke the watchful minutes to the hour, 
 
 Still and anon cheered up the heavy time ; 
 
 Saying, What lack you ? and, Where lies your grief?
 
 KING JOHN, Act IV. Scene L 93 
 
 'APT0YP02. '0YBEPT02. 
 
 A. rkaxy^^ Se ttw? av ; o'ot yap eur' riKyei K(ipa, 
 ^(ourjv KOfxaicTL crats eint^ev^a^ i/J^yji', 
 ilMcov y dpicTTrji', /3acrtXtSo9 8' epyov ^ep6<i, 
 eiT ovK aTTrjTovv /cat to crov yepoXv i^ialv 
 Kapa ixeo-ovorrjs ev(f)p6ur)<; e/Sctcrracra* 
 yvo)[jL(ov yap epTTOvO' &)s jSdSrjv Trjpei )(p6vov 
 iyepTL TTiKpdv wS' eKov^it^ov Tpij^rfv, 
 \eyoiv, TL ■)(prj!l,€L'? ; nfj Se raXyo? t^ctt'et;
 
 94 TRANS LA TIONS. 
 
 Or, What good love may I perform for you ? 
 Many a poor man's son would have lain still 
 And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you ; 
 But you at your sick service had a prince. 
 Nay, you may think my love was crafty love, 
 And call it cunning ; do, an if you will : 
 If heaven be pleased that you must use me ill, 
 Why then you must. — Will you put out mine eyes ? 
 These eyes that never did nor never shall 
 So much as frown on you ? 
 H. I have sworn to do it, 
 
 And with hot irons must I burn them out. 
 
 Shakespeare.
 
 KING JOHN, Act IV. Scene I. 95 
 
 TTOtas Se Set (re ^Ckrajxri^ virovpyia'; ; 
 (pavXov ^kv elal Trarpo^ ots ^pC^eiv napov 
 ovK Tj^ioicrdv (T ouS' av eu irpoaevveTreLv 
 crol S' at! vocrovvTL irpocnroXo^ Traprjv ava^. 
 dXX' ov (f)L\ovvTa Srjdev evnpeTrrjs X6yo<; 
 irpocrrJKao'ev <^i\ovvti' <J)(x(tk, et crot ^apt?* 
 et 8' ovz^ fjLoXelv ere rovSe \.vyiavTrjpiov 
 deoL'S SeSoKrat, rovpyov ecTT ipyaareov. 
 rXijaeL av TcouSe [x ofxixaTcov TY)T(ofJieuov, 
 Tcov ovre irpocrdev ovS' iirKTyovTOiv ye croi 
 aKvdpoiiTov oxjjLV ovT i(f>e^6vT0JU TTOTe; 
 *OT. iv(ofxoTo<; yap elfiL 7roL7](TeLV raSe* 
 
 dKfxals Se -)(^pyj col /a' iixTrvpois <j)6etpeiv Kopas.
 
 96 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 To a Ladys Girdle. 
 
 That which her slender waist confined 
 Shall now my joyful temples bind : 
 No monarch but would give his crown 
 His arms might do what this has done. 
 
 It was my heaven's extremest sphere 
 The pale which held that lovely deer : 
 My joy, my grief, my hope, my love 
 Did all within this circle move. 
 
 A narrow compass ! And yet there 
 Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair ; 
 Give me but what this riband bound — 
 Take all the rest the sun goes round. 
 
 Waller.
 
 TO A LADY'S GIRDLE. 97 
 
 Ad zonam. 
 
 Zona, solet gracilem qua cingere Lesbia formam, 
 
 quam bene temporibus fit diadema meis ! 
 Mygdonia vellet Croesus dicione pacisci, 
 
 huic quod erat, Croeso munus ut esset idem, 
 haec mihi formosam saepsit custodia cervam, 
 
 saepsit inaccessus quicquid Olympus habet. 
 spes ubi plena metus, ubi versaretur amandi 
 
 dulcis amarities, sat dabat una loci, 
 zona quod haec vinxit proprio concede fruamur ; 
 
 sic tibi quod passim Phoebus oberrat habe. 
 
 J. T. 7
 
 98 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 Iphigenia. 
 
 But she, with sick and scornful look averse, 
 To her full height her stately stature draws ; 
 
 "My youth," she said, "was blasted with a curse: 
 " This woman was the cause. 
 
 " I was cut off from hope in that sad place 
 
 *' Which yet to name my spirit loathes and fears ; 
 
 " My father held his hand upon his face ; 
 "I, blinded with my tears,
 
 FROM 'A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN! 99 
 
 Iphigenia. 
 
 Tristis ad haec odiis voltuque aversa superbo 
 altior assurgens spectanda regia forma 
 ilia refert : nostram scelus exitiale iuventam 
 abrupit : stetit haec caussae. de virginis aevo 
 transactum semel est : refugit crudelia castra 
 nunc etiam meminisse animus litusque nefandum. 
 astabat pater et dextra velaverat ora : 
 ipsa laborantes fletu gliscente susurros 
 
 7—2
 
 I oo TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 " Still strove to speak : my voice was thick with sighs, 
 " As in a dream. Dimly I could descry 
 
 " The stern black-bearded kings with wolfish eyes 
 " Waiting to see me die. 
 
 " The high masts flickered as they lay afloat, 
 
 " The crowds, the temples waver'd, and the shore ; 
 
 " The bright death quivered at the victim's throat ; 
 "Touch'd; and I knew no more." 
 
 Tennyson.
 
 FROM 'A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN! loi 
 
 nitor ut expediam : sed creber anhelitus illos 
 turbat, ut aegra trahens singultit murmura somnus. 
 vix torvi apparent reges, vix effera cerno 
 lumlna, barbatam cerno expectare coronam 
 . dum moriar. celsi procul in statione coruscant 
 ante oculos mali, iam coetus inhorruit undans, 
 iam curves fluitat sinus et trepidante vacillant 
 templa iugo, sacrae fulgor iam letifer instat 
 cervici tetigitque semel sensumque peremit.
 
 1 02 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 ARCITES. 
 
 Me thy pupil, 
 
 Youngest follower of thy drum, instruct this day 
 
 With military skill, that to thy laud 
 
 I may advance my streamer, and by thee 
 
 Be styled the lord o' day ! Give me, great Mars, 
 
 Some token of thy pleasure ! 
 
 \There is heard clanging of ai'mour, with 
 thunder, as the burst of a battle : they all 
 rise and boiv to the altar ^ 
 
 O great corrector of enormous times,
 
 THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, Acr V. Scene I. 103 
 
 APK1TH2. X0P02. 
 
 A. (TV hrj fie (Tov ^xadovra (TaK.Tnyyo'i Se (ttj? 
 oirahov avhpoTroLiSa cnjixepov oopos 
 epy e/cStSacTKWv So? to aov t av^eiv /cXe'o? 
 irpoao) re ^oiprjcravra (Trjixeiajv X^''"V 
 (TOV kclWlplkov evyfM aveL7r6vT0<s Xafieiv. 
 W\ (o fxeyLCTTe, Sei^ov ev (f>pop(op, Ape^. 
 XO. €(f)pLi€v aWijp' npoaKVPCoiJiei', (I) (faXoL. 
 A. fjirjvLiJLoiTCJV aXaarop ovk ava(TxeTOiv,
 
 1 04 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider 
 Of dusty and old titles, that heal'st with blood 
 The earth when it is sick, and cur'st the world 
 O' the plurisy of people : I do take 
 Thy signs auspiciously, and in thy name 
 To my design march boldly. — Let us go. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher.
 
 THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, Act V. Scene I. 105 
 
 TToXet? 6 creiojv ra? ayav oiy/coj/xeva?, 
 ^povco fivS(ocr<ou TrayKpaTe<s Tifxoiv fipajSev, 
 Toixal^; TOfMCJ(rav yrj<s 6 KovcfiL^oiv vocrov, 
 6 (TcofJiacrLV cr<f)pLycJcrap la^alvoiv ^Bova, 
 iBe^dfJLrjv tov opviv, ipToXy Se crfj 
 i<s TTeipav et/x' arpecrro?* dXX opiKii^eOa.
 
 io6 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 The Praise of Virtue. 
 
 The sturdy rock, for all his strength, 
 
 By raging seas is rent in twain ; 
 The marble rock is pearsed at length 
 
 With litde drops of drizzling rain ; 
 The oxe doth yield unto the yoke, 
 
 The Steele obeyeth the hammer's stroke ; 
 The stately stagge that seems so stoute 
 
 By yelping hounds at bay is set ;
 
 THE PRAISE OF VIRTUE. 107 
 
 Laus Virtutis. 
 
 Sensit furentis saevitiam freti 
 arx nesciarum cedere rupium : 
 nituntur immortale marmor 
 exiguae terebrare guttae : 
 collo iuvencus fert docili iugum, 
 incude mucro fingitur, obstitit 
 urgente latratu Laconum 
 
 fisa suae modo cerva formae.
 
 io8 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 The swiftest bird that flies about 
 
 Is caught at length in fowler's net ; 
 The greatest fish in deepest brooke 
 
 Is soon deceived by subtle hooke ; 
 Yea, man himself, unto whose will 
 
 All things are bounden to obey, 
 For all his wit and worthie skill, 
 
 Doth fall at last and fade away. 
 There is no thing but time doeth waste ; 
 
 The heavens, the earth consume at last. 
 But Vertue sits triumphing still 
 
 Upon her throne of glorious fame : 
 Though spiteful death must body kill, 
 
 Yet hurts he not his vertuous fame, 
 But life or death, whatso betides 
 
 The state of Vertue never slides. 
 
 Marshall.
 
 THE PRAISE OF VIRTUE. 109 
 
 praecellat ala, serius ocius 
 auceps volucrem retibus implicat : 
 rex ipse rivorum doloso 
 decipitur cito piscis hamo. 
 quin et potentes nos animantium, 
 tot nos honesti dotibus ingeni 
 artis tot insignes, caduci 
 labimur effluimusque saeclo. 
 nil est quod annis non pereat : perit 
 tellus, peribunt sidera : siderum 
 triumphat et terrae superstes 
 fulta sedens adamante Virtus, 
 secura leti gentibus invidi, 
 intaminatis integra laudibus, 
 immota, seu nudantur enses 
 seu quatiunt Acheronta manes.
 
 1 1 o TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 DOROTHEA. 
 
 Thou fool ! 
 That gloriest in having power to ravish 
 A trifle from me I am weary of: 
 What is this Hfe to me ? not worth a thought ; 
 Or, if it be esteemed, 'tis that I lose it 
 To win a better : even thy malice serves 
 To me but as a ladder to mount up 
 To such a height of happiness, where I shall 
 Look down with scorn on thee and on the world ;
 
 THE VIRGIN MARTYR, Act IV. Scene III in 
 
 AnPO®EA. 
 
 <w yi(tip, OS au^ets et /a' a^apirat^eiv a0eueL<; 
 <f)av\6v TL, (f)av\ov KTrjfxa hv(T(j>op6v ff" oifia' 
 Tov [,rjv iixol TL Kcpho'^ ; ovSa/xou Xeyco' 
 irXrjv €S TOcrovTov, ei jxeTaWd^at /Blov 
 TOV vvv anxelvoi' err] [xeu ovv Xcofirj fxoj/ou 
 iiraKpia-da-r), j3a6fxo<s to9, vnrjpeTel 
 vxpidpovov Trpo<i ok^ov, ov Kadrjfjieur) 
 KaTa(f)povTi](T(o aov re koI Outjtcov hvr)<s-
 
 1 1 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Where, circled with true pleasures, placed above 
 The reach of death or time, 'twill be my glory- 
 To think at what an easy price I bought it : 
 There's a perpetual spring, perpetual youth ; 
 No joint-benumbing cold, or scorching heat, 
 Famine, nor age, have any being there. 
 
 Massinger.
 
 THE VIRGIN MARTYR, Act IV. Scene III. ii^ 
 
 o 
 
 ov yap[Lov(Ci(Ti yvrjcriaL^s KVKXovfJLevyj, 
 
 deidakTJs, oi(f)dapTOS, ev(f>papO'qcroiJi,aL 
 
 OL iKTLUouTe<s rjXLK avT€.ikrj(j>a^iev. 
 
 iq^Yj yap iv6' aTravcrro? dcfyOiTov t eap' 
 
 ovK dpdpoKiqhe^ xf}V)(os, ov kd^pov creXa?, 
 
 ov Xt/x6s ovhe yrjpas ovSev ecTT eKei. 
 
 J. T. 8
 
 114 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 MYCERINUS. 
 
 So spake he, half in anger, half in scorn : 
 And one loud cry of grief and of amaze 
 Broke from his sorrowing people : so he spake ; 
 And turning, left them there ; and with brief pause, 
 Girt with a throng of revellers, bent his way 
 To the cool region of the groves he loved. 
 There by the river-banks he wandered on, 
 From palm-grove on to palm-grove, happy trees,
 
 MYCERINUS. 115 
 
 MYCERINUS. 
 
 Dixerat, iratus pariter pariterque superbus : 
 quern lamentantum excepit vox una suorum, 
 una indignantum. nee plura locutus in uno 
 destitit obtutu haerentes, nee multa moratus 
 lascivo stipante choro vestigia flexit 
 in nemus umbriferum placitaque sub arbore frigus. 
 
 illie ad ripas fluvii in palmeta meabat 
 addita palmetis, silvae felicis in umbras 
 
 8—2
 
 1 1 6 r RAN SLA TIONS. 
 
 Their smooth tops shining sunwards, and beneath 
 Burying their unsunned stems in grass and flowers : 
 Where in one dream the feverish time of Youth 
 Might fade in slumber, and the feet of Joy 
 Might wander all day long and never tire : 
 Here came the king, holding high feast, at morn, 
 Rose-crowned ; and ever, when the sun went down, 
 A hundred lamps beamed in the tranquil gloom. 
 From tree to tree, all through the twinkling grove 
 Revealing all the tumult of the feast, 
 While the deep-burnished foliage overhead 
 Splintered the silver arrows of the moon. 
 
 Matthew Arnold.
 
 MYCERINUS. 117 
 
 cuius leve nitent In solem culmina, at infra 
 
 sole caret gemmantem abdens se truncus in herbam. 
 
 possit ibi sopita semel ferventior aetas 
 
 fallere dum teritur : laetus velit error ibidem 
 
 ire dies totos neque delassetur eundo. 
 
 hue epulas rite instaurans rex flore rosarum 
 mane nitens aderat crines ; hie semper amoenas 
 centum elucebant Phoebo vergente per umbras 
 perpetuis lychni ramis, quibus omne micabat 
 hue illuc nemus et festis laeta orgia mensis : 
 at ferrugineo rutilantes desuper auro 
 lunae intercipiunt frondes argentea tela.
 
 1 1 8 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 Diaphenia. 
 
 DiAPHENiA like the daffadowndilly, 
 
 White as the sun, fair as the lily. 
 Heigh ho, how I do love thee! 
 
 I do love thee as my lambs 
 
 Are beloved of their dams ; 
 How blest were I if thou would'st prove me. 
 
 Diaphenia like the spreading roses. 
 
 That in thy sweet all sweets encloses. 
 
 Fair sweet, how I do love thee ! 
 I do love thee as each flower 
 Loves the sun's life-giving power ; 
 
 For dead, thy breath to life might move me.
 
 DIAPHENIA. 119 
 
 In Lydiam. 
 
 Albae par violae, magis 
 
 piiro sole, magis Candida liliis, 
 eheu, Lydia, qui meum 
 
 pertentans animum fervet amor tui ! 
 hoc te quo subolem gregis 
 
 matres lacteolam pectore prosequor : 
 quis felicior audiat, 
 
 tu spectare fidem si properes meam ? 
 o laetae similis rosae, 
 
 o quaecunque vigent unica continens 
 in te suavia, quam places 
 
 semper pulcra mihi, semper amabilis ! 
 flores ut teneri iubar 
 
 almum solis amant, sic ego Lydiam : 
 lucis scilicet exuli 
 
 aspirans animam tu mihi suscites.
 
 1 20 TRA NSLA riONS. 
 
 Diaphenia like to all things blessed, 
 
 If all thy praises were expressed, 
 Dear joy, how I do love thee ! 
 
 As the birds do love the spring, 
 
 As the bees their careful king ; 
 Then in requite, sweet virgin, love me ! 
 
 Constable.
 
 DIAPHENIA. 12 1 
 
 o dicenda quod uspiam 
 
 fausti, tot veneres si foret eloqui, 
 omnes o mihi gaudium 
 
 praeter delicias, gratior enites 
 quam ver est avibus novom, 
 
 quam prudens populis, Lydia, rex apum. 
 cessas, quin face mutua 
 
 mollescens referas, lux mea, gratiam ?
 
 1 2 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 THE KING OF DENMARK. 
 
 O, MY offence is rank, it smells to heaven, 
 It hath the primal eldest curse upon it, 
 A brothers murder! — Pray can I not, 
 Though inclination be as sharp as will ; 
 My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; 
 And, like a man to double business bound, 
 I stand in pause where I shall first begin. 
 And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
 
 HAMLET, Act III. Scene III. 123 
 
 BA2IAEY2. 
 
 OLfjLOL, fxiaajx e)(di(TTov, ovpavov fxvcro^, 
 Tovfxou rdS' dixTrXaK-qjxa, irpoiTdp^ov S' d/oas 
 Kkrjpov^ov, avrctSeX^o? avSevTrj^ (f)6vo<;' 
 Kal Trpo(TTpoTraL<s fiev ouS' idv Tedrjyixivri 
 (fyprjv crvvdekrj to So^av eyKelcrOai crdivoi' 
 (TTrevSovra yap to Kpelcrorov avTicnra KaKov 
 opfxd^ Se Stcrcras et<s ottoV o)p[xyjixevos 
 TTOTepov npoTLcro) xpyjp^ dfirj'^avcju X6y(o 
 ovSeTepou epyoi^ iK(f)ep(tJ. koI S17 (j)6v(p
 
 1 2 4 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Were thicker than itself with brother's blood ? 
 
 Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 
 
 To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mercy 
 
 But to confront the visage of offence ? 
 
 And what's in prayer, but this twofold force, 
 
 To be forestalled ere we come to fall. 
 
 Or pardoned, being down? Then I'll look up; 
 
 My fault is past. But O, what form of prayer 
 
 Can serve my turn ? Forgive me my foul murder ! 
 
 That cannot be ; since I am still possessed 
 
 Of those effects for which I did the murder, 
 
 My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. 
 
 Shakespeare.
 
 HAMLET, Acr III. Scene III. 125 
 
 Trava)\e0po<; X^V V^^ hnrXdaLov TTa)(o<; 
 TTenrff ofjiaiixw' -)(€pvifi(ov SloctBotov 
 ov pevfJLa irayKaivLCTTOv cocrTe Kav icrr^v 
 ^LOVL KadaipeLv ; rj decov tl fiovXerai 
 oXkto<s fiev ei jxr) crcfioiXjxaT dvTinpwp' opdu, 
 TL o akko /cepoos nkrju too ev Atrats onrkovvy 
 TO jxev (fiddveLV crco^oPTa'i dinaicrTOv ^eov9, 
 TO S' av vejxeLv irTaicravTL avyyvoiav ^poT<S ; 
 
 77/309 TaVTOL TOL KaT'Y)<f)€S OpdoXTO) /SXcTTO? 
 
 ws e/C7re<^€vy&>9. etr* iyo) iroia<; keycov 
 ev^ds Tv^oip^ av ; Toi Trakaixpaia), deot, 
 (rvyyv(OTe' ttcj^ Y^P' KTrjixaO' 09 y ^9 rnvTivoiv 
 €/cart Kd<f)6vevaa tov<s 9p6vov<s r e^w 
 KoX Trjv SdixapTa kol to (fyLkoTLfiov ^vvov ;
 
 1 2 6 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 THE LAST MAN. 
 
 All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, 
 
 The Sun himself must die, 
 Before this mortal shall assume 
 
 Its Immortality! 
 I saw a vision in my sleep, 
 That gave my spirit strength to sweep 
 
 Adown the gulf of Time ! 
 I saw the last of human mould. 
 That shall Creation's death behold. 
 
 As Adam saw her prime !
 
 THE LAST MAN. 127 
 
 MORTALIUM SUPERSTES. 
 
 Fas daedalae telluris imagines, 
 ipsum tenebris fas Hyperiona 
 marcere : sic demum caduci 
 sidereum iubar induemus. 
 vidi sub altis nocte soporibus 
 volvenda fassum tempora somnium, 
 quo raptus annorum per aequor 
 mente feror trepidante vates. 
 vidi, quot auras terricolae bibent, 
 unum peremptis stare superstitem, 
 cui funus ostendetur orbis, 
 ut nova luxuries Adamo.
 
 128 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 The Sun's eye had a sickly glare, 
 
 The Earth with age was wan, 
 The skeletons of nations were 
 
 Around that lonely man ! 
 Some had expired in fight, — the brands 
 Still rusted in their bony hands ; 
 
 In plague and famine some! 
 Earth's cities had no sound nor tread ; 
 And ships were drifting with the dead 
 
 To shores where all was dumb! 
 
 Yet prophet-like that lone one stood 
 With dauntless words and high. 
 
 That shook the sere leaves from the wood 
 As if a storm passed by, 
 
 Saying, We are twins in death, proud Sun, 
 
 Thy face is cold, thy race is run.
 
 THE LAST MAN. 129 
 
 langaebat oris sol male luridus, 
 tellus anili pallida taedio : 
 
 Stat gentis humanae superstes 
 quern populi posuere circum 
 ossa interempti : marte sub hostico 
 hos scabra in albis spicula dexteris 
 testantur occisos, necarat 
 
 hos famis, hos mora lenta morbi. 
 stratis viarum non sonitus pedum, 
 non murmur ardet praetereuntium : 
 torpente torpentes in oras 
 remigio vaga fertur alnus. 
 stabat severi prodigus auguri, 
 stabat superbis impavidus minis, 
 frondesque ut autumnalis auster 
 flavicomo quatit aesculeto 
 vox gloriantis. Par venit exitus 
 utrique nostrum : te quoque frigora, 
 Sol magne, te fatalis urget 
 terminus et miseranda divis 
 
 J. T.
 
 TRANS LA TIONS. 
 
 'Tis Mercy bids thee go : 
 For thou ten thousand thousand years 
 Hast seen the tide of human tears, 
 
 That shall no longer flow. 
 
 Campbell.
 
 THE LAST MAN. 131 
 
 sors aegra terrae. sat veteris mali, 
 sat lacrimarum saecula saeculis 
 nectens tuebaris : dolorum 
 ille semel requievit aestus. 
 
 9—2
 
 132 , TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 From 'Enoch Arden' 
 
 All these he saw ; but what he fain had seen 
 He could not see, the kindly human face, 
 Nor ever hear a kindly voice, but heard 
 The myriad shriek of wheeling ocean-fowl, 
 The league-long roller thundering on the reef. 
 The moving whisper of huge trees that branch'd 
 And blossom'd in the zenith, or the sweep 
 Of some precipitous rivulet to the wave.
 
 FROM 'ENOCH ARDEN! 133 
 
 Naufragus. 
 
 Haec videt : illud abest quod maxima cura videndi, 
 voltus abest humanus, abest humana loquella, 
 non videt haec, non audit, at audiit innumerorum 
 stridere mergorum torquentia saecula gyros, 
 audiit ex alto glomerantum pondus aquarum 
 saxa fragore quati, vel in aethere murmura summo 
 bracchia motantis silvae, motantis honores 
 aerios, vel praecipitem prono agmine rivom
 
 1 34 TRA NSL A TIONS, 
 
 As down the shore he ranged, or all day long 
 
 Sat often in the seaward gazing gorge, 
 
 A shipwreck'd sailor, waiting for a sail : 
 
 No sail from day to day, but every day 
 
 The sunrise broken into scarlet shafts 
 
 Among the palms and ferns and precipices ; 
 
 The blaze upon the waters to the east ; 
 
 The blaze upon the island overhead ; 
 
 The blaze upon the waters to the west ; 
 
 Then the great stars that globed themselves in Heaven, 
 
 The hollower-bellowing ocean, and again 
 
 The scarlet shafts of sunrise, but no sail. 
 
 Tennyson.
 
 FROM 'ENOCH ARDEN: 135 
 
 in mare devolvi ; sive errat solus ad undas 
 seu pelagus spectante diem sub caute fatigans 
 naufragus expectat navem : lux trudere lucem, 
 nulla venire rates, sed solibus addere soles 
 per palmas frangenda rubentis tela diei, 
 per iuga, per filices : furit ignibus aequor eois, 
 terra furit mediis, furit excedentibus aequor, 
 mox orbes magni astrorum grandescere caelo, 
 mox gravius mugire salum, mox rursus oborti 
 tela rubere die — nullum, nullum undique velum.
 
 1 7,6 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 SATAN. 
 
 What though the field be lost ? 
 
 All is not lost ; the unconquerable will, 
 And study of revenge, immortal hate, 
 And courage never to submit or yield. 
 And what else is not to be overcome : — 
 That glory never shall his wrath or might 
 Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace 
 With suppliant knee, and deify his power
 
 PARADISE LOST, I. 105—124. 137 
 
 2ATANA2. 
 
 Tt S' el Kvpovixep t^9 ixd)(r)<; y Icr^aXy^ivoi ; 
 ov Kai ra iravT icrcjidXixed' • ov to KaprepeLP, 
 ov ret? acrdpTov; /cat [xeTahp6fxov<; dpds, 
 ov TOP KajxelcrdaL [JltJO' vnoTTTTJ^eiP ttotc 
 fxeXkoPTa Ovfjiop dXXo t el tl Svcrixa^op, 
 ravr ovt aneiXcop /cetvo? ovte [xr) /8ta 
 efx i$eXy) ttot- dXXd irpocnrecropO' eSpas 
 OaKclp yopv-rreTel^ i^Lcrovp re SaifjLOPL
 
 138 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Who from the terror of this arm so late 
 
 Doubted his empire ; that were low indeed, 
 
 That were an ignominy and shame beneath 
 
 This downfall ; since, by fate, the strength of gods, 
 
 And this empyreal substance, cannot fail : 
 
 Since, through experience of this great event. 
 
 In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, 
 
 We may with more successful hope resolve 
 
 To wage by force or guile eternal war, 
 
 Irreconcileable to our grand foe, 
 
 Who now triumphs, and in the excess of joy 
 
 Sole reigning holds the tyranny of heaven. 
 
 Milton.
 
 PARADISE LOST, I. 105—124. 139 
 
 Tov apTL TTaTTTrfvavTa jxtj TvpavvCBo^ 
 
 77/30? Tovoi' ajxaipTOL' 7ravTo<s alcryiov rdSe 
 
 Kat TTTw/xctTcov av Ota vvv TreirTcoKafxev 
 
 €)(6lov elrj TTToicryia- ToiavTrfv Oecjv 
 
 icr)(yu re croi/xa r' e/c 7rvpo<s KeKpafxefov 
 
 ^diveiv ireTrpoiTat ^JLiqiroT' etSore? 8' av av 
 
 oXov rdS' rjyoivicrp.eB', e? Sopo<; Kpiacv 
 
 ^et/3ov9 /xei^ ou, Kpei(Ta-ov<; Se tt/oo? TrpofxrjdLav, 
 
 fjL€T eXTTtSo? fxeXXoLfxev evTV)(€orT€pa<; 
 
 ■^ )(€pcrlv rj BoXoLcrcv a(r7r6vh(o (TrdcreL 
 
 ikau dTravcrrois rov jaeya (TTvyovjxevov, 
 
 OS I'v^' fjLeyav^crjq Trepiyapel (f)povijfxaTL 
 
 e)(€L p,6vap^o<; et? ^ewi^ rvpavvtha.
 
 1 40 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 THE PROGRESS OF POESY. 
 
 Youth rambles on life's arid mount, 
 
 And strikes the rock, and finds the vein 
 
 And brings the water from the fount, 
 
 The fount which shall not flow again. 
 
 The man mature with labour chops 
 
 For the bright stream a channel grand, 
 
 And sees not that the sacred drops 
 
 Ran off and vanished out of hand.
 
 THE PROGRESS OF POESY. 141 
 
 AETATES POETAE. 
 
 Ire libet iuveni deserta per ardua vitae ; 
 
 fausta manus rupem percutit, unda salit 
 prolicit arcanum luvenis de fonte liquorem, 
 
 unde nihil posthac prolicietur aquae, 
 ille viro labor est, opus exercere ligonis, 
 
 alveus ut pateat cui data lympha micet. 
 nescit enim tenues divino e flumine guttas, 
 
 cum semel exierint, deperiisse semel.
 
 1 4 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 And then the old man totters nigh 
 
 And feebly rakes among the stones, 
 
 The mount is mute, the channel dry, 
 And down he lays his weary bones. 
 
 Matthew Arnold.
 
 THE PROGRESS OF POESY. 143 
 
 mox loca nota senex gressu titubante revisens 
 saxa quid umoris, quaerit, adusta tegant. 
 
 a, scatebrae siluere iugo, caret alveus unda, 
 nee mora quin duro procubet ipse solo.
 
 1 44 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 THE COMING OF ARTHUR. 
 
 And the fringe 
 Of that great breaker, sweeping up the strand, 
 Lash'd at the wizard as he spake the word. 
 And all at once all round him rose In fire, 
 So that the child and he were clothed in fire. 
 And presently thereafter follow'd calm, 
 Free sky and stars: "And this same child," he said, 
 "Is he who reigns ; nor could I part in peace
 
 THE COMING OF ARTHUR. 145 
 
 APTOYPOI Enicl>AIN0MEN05. 
 
 a.Krrj 8' iTrevOopovcra ravT elprjKOTa 
 
 edeivev aKpa [xavTiv y) rpLKV p.ia, 
 
 TTvpirvov; r inL^^craaa naa dvyjXaro 
 
 (ocTT dixTre)(€cr6aL nalS' oixov KavTov rrvpL 
 
 Ka.T Tjv yaXyjvr), Kadapd t e^e^aiveTO 
 
 Ka0apd<; ot' aWpa<; dcrrp'- 6 8', ecr^' oS', €L<f)', 6 Trai? 
 
 ap^rj<; 6 vvv KK.'iqpov)(o<;' ov yap rjv ^e)at9 
 
 Ikttv€iv kKTjkbi TolcrB' liT app-qTOLq iixoL. 
 
 J. T. 10
 
 1 46 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 Till this were told." And saying this the seer 
 
 Went thro' the strait and dreadful pass of death, 
 
 Not ever to be question'd any more 
 
 Save on the further side ; but when I met 
 
 Merlin, and ask'd him if these things were truth- 
 
 The shining dragon and the naked child 
 
 Descending in the glory of the seas — 
 
 He laugh'd as is his wont, and answer'd me 
 
 In riddling triplets of old time, and said: 
 
 "Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow on the lea! 
 And truth is this to me, and that to thee ; 
 And truth or clothed or naked let it be. 
 
 Rain, sun, and rain ! and the free blossom blows ; 
 Sun, rain, and sun ! and where is he who knows } 
 From the great deep to the great deep he goes." 
 
 Tennyson.
 
 THE COMING OF ARTHUR. 147 
 
 TOfraura \€^a<; hvairiparov eKTrepa 
 (TTeuojTTOv 'AtSou fjLoivTL^, ov TTepaLTepo), 
 ovS' EL Tt5 i^epoLTO, Trkr)u eKel, ^pdcrcov. 
 iyo) oe rw Kdk^avTL (rvvTv^ovcr ore 
 €i ravT iriJTVfi etre TrXdcTT dvqpojxrjv, 
 KeXcrai daXdacrr)<; 77a/x^aovs 7repi,crTe(f)e<5 
 yvjxvov SpdKOVTL ^vv TTavaLoXo) l3pe(f)0s, 
 yekoiv TO Sr) ^vvr]6e<; avrecfidey^aTO 
 alvLyixaTO}Sel<; koI 7raXat<^arou9 crri^a?* 
 
 Tr}oe [xeu avyov Trjoe o an ofxppojv 
 
 Ke^Tai TTokv^pov^ Ipts eV dypols' 
 
 ecTTi 8' dXr)66<; tovto p.kv rjfXLv, 
 
 vfuv S' erepov crac^e? ovv ecrrw, 
 
 K€Ka\vp.fJi6V0P eiT dKdXvTTTOV. 
 
 r)Ov fxev op^ppoi^ rjov o ev eiKtj 
 KoKvKOiv dvOel ydvo^ avTo<^ve^' 
 TL^ Be Bceyvo) Svo(j)ep^ eiKiKpivcov 
 jBpoTos ; i^ d<f>avov<s irpocfiavevT d(f>avr}<s 
 K€.v6yi,(tivo<i iSe^aro KevBfKou. 
 
 10-
 
 1 48 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 ALTH^A. 
 
 But thou, son, be not filled with evil dreams 
 Nor with desire of these things ; for with time 
 Blind love burns out ; but if one feed it full 
 Till some discolouring stain dyes all his life, 
 He shall keep nothing praiseworthy, nor die 
 The sweet wise death of old men honourable, 
 Who have lived out all the length of all their years 
 Blameless, and seen well-pleased the face of gods. 
 And without shame and without fear have wrought 
 Things memorable, and while their days held out 
 In sight of all men and the sun's great light
 
 FROM 'ATALANTA IN CALYDON: 149 
 
 AA0AIA. 
 
 (W TTol, (TV 8' alcr)(^pa)v fxiJT ovetpaTOiv ye/xe 
 p.rjO' Ifxepov TOLcovhe' KaprepovvTi yap 
 fiapaCveraL to [xapyov w S' av eKTpacjiev 
 KTjXlS' airavToq dfj fxeXajxTrayrj ^lov, 
 TO. '^pyjad' oS' ov croicrair av, ovk evOuTjcnixo'; 
 ao(f)y]<; TeXevTija-eiev i^ evyqpla^, 
 dvaixTrXaKrjTov koI TpiTocnrovhov /3iov 
 hiK-Y^v Xa^6vT0)v, ot KaT o/x/xa haip^odiv 
 iXdovTe^ ev(j)pdvdrj(Tai', ala^vqq 8' drep 
 rjdXrjcrav ov rpecraPTe^; ovk oXovfieva, 
 aicov 8' e<i>9 dvTel^^^ev ovk dfidprvpoL 
 TT/oos irdvT eiTOTTTevovro^ tjXlov (jidoq
 
 I s o TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Have gat them glory and given of their own praise 
 
 To the earth that bare them and the day that bred, 
 
 Home friends and far-off hospitalities, 
 
 And filled with gracious and memorial fame 
 
 Lands loved of summer or washed by violent seas. 
 
 Towns populous and many unfooted ways, 
 
 And alien lips, and native with their own. 
 
 But when white age and venerable death 
 
 Mow down the strength and life within their limbs, 
 
 Drain out the blood and darken their clear eyes, 
 
 Immortal honour is on them, having past 
 
 Through splendid life and death desirable 
 
 To the clear seat and remote throne of souls. 
 
 Lands undiscoverable in the unheard-of west, 
 
 Round which the strono- stream of a sacred sea 
 
 Rolls without wind for ever, and the snow 
 
 There shows not her white wings and windy feet. 
 
 Nor thunder nor swift rain saith anything, 
 
 Nor the sun burns, but all things rest and thrive. 
 
 Swinburne.
 
 FROM 'ATALANTA IN CALYDON! 151 
 
 ogai/ ^ev eKTrja-avTO, Tiq<i o evoogia<; 
 dpeirrp di'TeSoiKav Travrpofhov t avyrj deov 
 /cat /JLTjTpl Fata, ^dpfxa rots Trpog at/xaro? 
 Ktjpvyjxa S' ev^ivoiai 7ro\v(f)r)fxov So/jtot5* 
 /cal rwt'S' deCvcoq ev)(apL^ t ej^et Xoyos 
 ^e/aet ^vfavXov? et^' dXt/cXufrrovs TrXa/ca?, 
 dyop(i)v re kv/cXov? dtrTtySets r' epiqixia^ 
 iy^cjpicov re crTo/xara KoXkoBpiov dju,a. 
 Xev/coz/ S' tSovcrt yrjpa<; ev0* "KtZov cre)8as 
 (TTepvoiv Traprj/Sijcraorav i^ajxa jBiav, 
 alix i^afiavpcov ofxfia S' dfx/3\o)Trop ridei^, 
 yepa<s tot ecTT d(j>6apTov i^a(f)iyixevoL<s 
 Kkeivov St' atoji'' ev(f)L\rj t diraWayrjv 
 fiaKapoiv TLV eU evaina Trjkovpov 0" ehpav, 
 dvevp€Tov<i dyu(OTO<; 'Ecnrepov yva<i, 
 ov<s hrj deopTOS alep dp.(^ekiaraeTaL 
 dviqvep.o'i TrXrjixp.vpL<;, ouS' cteXXoTrou? 
 
 XeVKOTTTepOL^ piTTolcriV ep)^€TaL XLOiV, 
 
 ov a-KrjTTTOs, ovK of eta Sv(T(f>r)ixel i/za/cdg, 
 ov Kavfx e(^Xefe, rrdvTa S' evecTTO) Tpecjiei.
 
 1 5 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Her S2ifferings ended with the day. 
 
 Her sufferings ended with the day ; 
 
 Yet Hved she at its close, 
 And breathed the long, long night away 
 
 In statue-like repose. 
 
 But when the sun in all his state 
 
 Illumed the eastern skies, 
 She passed through glory's morning gate 
 
 And walked in Paradise. 
 
 James Aldrich.
 
 'HER SUFFERINGS ENDED WITH THE DAY: 153 
 
 Mora. 
 
 lamque die non ilia quidem vergente laborat, 
 
 sed licet emeritam terra parumper habet ; 
 noctis enim tristes ultro remorata per horas 
 
 linquere marmoreum noluit aura sinum. 
 at dubias splendens quom sol discusserat umbras, 
 
 aurea quom toto lux oriente rubet, 
 digna triumphantem quae sic intraret Olympum 
 
 asseritur superis mane Serena choris.
 
 1 5 4 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 ROMEO. 
 
 O MY love ! my wife ! 
 Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, 
 Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : 
 Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet 
 Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, 
 And death's pale flag is not advanced there. 
 Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet } 
 O, what more favour can I do to thee, 
 Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain 
 To sunder his that was thine enemy ?
 
 ROMEO AND JULIET, Acr V. Scene III. 155 
 
 POMEON. 
 
 oi (f^iXTarov fxoL peo-ydfxov pviJi(f)'r)<; Se]aas, 
 'AlSt)'? 69 eKTreircoKe crov Trvo7J<i /xeXi 
 0V7T0) TTpocroiixiKrqKe rfj y evfMop(j)La' 
 (TV o of^ eaAojs, ctAA ec/ ojs Traprjo evcov 
 X^^^V ^' ^'"'ct'Taet crrjixa TTop(f>vpov<s "Epw?, 
 6 8' a»;(pos "AtSr^s ov TpoiraC ecTTrjcre ttoj. 
 Tv^aXre, crov 8' au TTTcofxa (f)OLVLOP roSe; 
 OLfjLOL, TL Spcov av (Tol ^a^t^ot/ai^v tt\{ov 
 7) Tov crov TjTTep avPTafxcjv e\oi fiiov 
 ravTYj KaOaLpcov /cat tou ivcrTaTiqv \€.pi ;
 
 1 5 6 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 Forgive me, cousin ! Ah, dear Juliet, 
 
 Why art thou yet so fair ? shall I believe 
 
 That unsubstantial death is amorous, 
 
 And that the lean abhorred monster keeps 
 
 Thee here in dark to be his paramour ? 
 
 For fear of that, I still will stay with thee : 
 
 And never from this palace of dim night 
 
 Depart again : here, here will I remain 
 
 With worms that are thy chamber-maids ; O, here 
 
 Will I set up my everlasting rest, 
 
 And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars 
 
 From this world-wearied flesh. 
 
 Shakespeare.
 
 ROMEO AND JULIET, Acr V. Scene III. 157 
 
 (Tvyyvoidi, avyyov- ctXXa, ^iKrajr), tl crol 
 (XKpaL(f)ve'; (oSe /caXXos ; rj Tretcr^r^cro/xat 
 (TKidv irep 'AiBrjv elr ipoiVTa TvyyoMeiv, 
 ere 8', ovT avai^ov koX ^poTOCTTvyrj Beov, 
 oi<i 01 ^vvoiKrjorovcrav ev aKOTCo Tpe(f>€iv ; 
 o {Jirj yevTjTai crvfMnapacrTaTeLV BoKel, 
 aTroarTaTelv 8e p,r)KeT i^ dvrjXCov 
 PVKTOS p.ekd6 poiv iu0dh\ ivddS' ifxixevco 
 evXats TO Xolttov cralai npocnrokoi^ ^vvcov 
 TOVTOiv ix€TOLKo<; iyypa(f)6l<5 aldiVLO^, 
 6vr)TaL<; dTTenroiv ^vix^opalai, Baifiovo^ 
 hvcrhaiixovo^ XenaSvov eKTpa^rjXico.
 
 1 5 8 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 Witch-elms that counterchange the floor. 
 
 Witch-elms that counterchange the floor 
 Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright ; 
 And thou, with all thy breadth and height 
 
 Of foliage, towering sycamore ; 
 
 How often, hither wandering down. 
 My Arthur found your shadows fair. 
 And shook to all the liberal air 
 
 The dust and din and steam of town :
 
 IN MEMORIAM, STANZA LX XXVIII. 159 
 
 Laelius. 
 
 O mixta fundens nigra clarioribus 
 
 in aequor, ulme, graminis, 
 o bracchiis superba diffluentibus, 
 
 sycomore, celso vertice : 
 quam saepe non invitus urbe Laelius 
 
 mutabat haec umbracula, 
 benigniori traditurus aetheri 
 
 lites, Suburam, fenora.
 
 i6o TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 He brought an eye for all he saw ; 
 
 He mixt in all our simple sports ; 
 
 They pleased him, fresh from brawling courts 
 And dusty purlieus of the law. 
 
 O joy to him in this retreat, 
 Immantled in ambrosial dark, 
 To drink the cooler air, and mark 
 
 The landscape winking thro' the heat : 
 
 O sound to rout the brood of cares, 
 The sweep of scythe in morning dew. 
 The gust that round the garden flew. 
 
 And tumbled half the mellowing pears ! 
 
 O bliss, when all in circle drawn 
 About him, heart and ear were fed 
 To hear him, as he lay and read 
 
 The Tuscan poets on the lawn :
 
 IN MEMORIAM, STANZA LX XX VI 11. i6i 
 
 nee venit arvis ipse non idoneus 
 
 ludove dispar simplici, 
 raucis libenter actionibus vacans, 
 
 Libone, lanis, Marsya. 
 o quale tenebris otium fragrantibus 
 
 reductioris anguli, 
 auraeque gratum frigus et nictantia 
 
 vapore rura solstiti ! 
 quo dissipentur ocius curae sono 
 
 quam mane falcis impigrae, 
 vel quod piris hinc inde mitescentibus 
 
 trahat ruinam, flaminis ? 
 o quom beati cingeremus Laelium 
 
 stratum in virenti caespite, 
 quam cordibus vox, quam placebat auribus 
 
 vates legentis Atticos ! 
 
 J. T. 
 
 1 1
 
 1 6 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Or in the all-golden afternoon 
 A guest, or happy sister, sung, 
 Or here she brought the harp and flung 
 
 A ballad to the brightening moon. 
 
 Tennyson.
 
 IN ME MORI AM, STANZA LX XX VI II 163 
 
 vergente mox cantabat aureo die 
 
 aut hospes aut Calpurnia, 
 vel Ilia sumpta iam nitescentem lyra 
 
 admurmurabat Cynthiam. 
 
 II — 2
 
 164 
 
 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 DUKE. VIOLA. 
 
 Vio. Ay, but I know — 
 
 Duke. What dost thou know ? 
 
 Vio. Too well what love women to men may owe : 
 
 In faith, they are as true of heart as we. 
 
 My father had a daughter loved a man, 
 
 As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman, 
 
 I should your lordship. 
 Duke. And what's her history ?
 
 TWELFTH NIGHT, Act II. Scene IV. 16 = 
 
 'ANAE. 'OYIOAH. 
 
 OT. KaiTOL (TOL^^ oTSa 
 
 A. TrpdyixaTos tlvo^s Tripi; 
 
 OT. \icLV TOO, oiov avhpo<i Ijxepou yvvrj 
 Tpe(f>eLU 7re(f)VKev' 0*9 iTr)Tvixo)<i So/cw 
 dvhpcjv yvpaLKa<; tt'kttlv ov^ rjo-cro) reXelv. 
 yju Trarpl TajfiM Trat? rt?, t) ttoOco Keap 
 duSpo<; KaTior\e6\ ajairep el Kayoj yvvrj 
 Kvpoiv epoiTL (TO) KaTacrxoLfiTjv, dva^. 
 A. Tv^^a? dv rjSr) rrjardi' dvaTrTV(T(TOi<i Kopiq^;.
 
 1 66 THAN SLA TIONS. 
 
 Vio. A blank, my lord. She never told her love, 
 But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
 Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought, 
 And with a green and yellow melancholy 
 She sat like patience on a monument, 
 Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed ? 
 We men may say more, swear more : but indeed 
 Our shows are more than will ; for still we prove 
 Much in our vows, but little in our love. 
 
 Shakespeare.
 
 TWELFTH NIGHT, Act IL Scene IV. 167 
 
 OT. Kevr\v ye SeXrov ov yo.p e^elirev irore 
 epcora orjgLuviJiov' i) cnyr) o aet, 
 XeL^T^vos iv Kokv^LV 'qptvoLS Slktjv, 
 )(poLa<; ifi6(TK€T av6o<;' iv Se (f)poPTL(TLV 
 CTTy/cer'* ^XP^ ^' aXyeaiv [xeXayxoXoL^ 
 Ka6r)T0, tXtJijlcdp (o<s rt? iv cmjXr) ded, 
 yeXaxra Xvtttj' ttw? rciS' ovk epyoL<; epojs ; 
 XoycDv p,ev opKCov 0' avSpes dcftdovcoTepoL, 
 Trj'? 8' evTrpeiTela^ XetVerat Trpo6vp.ia' 
 KoX yap Xoyco jxev ttoXX' vTnaxvovp.eard del, 
 epax; 8' in epyoL<; o'jJLLKpo<; i^eXeyxerai.
 
 1 68 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 ARTHUR. 
 
 Yet think not that I come to urge thy crimes ; 
 
 I did not come to curse thee, Guinevere, 
 
 I, whose vast pity almost makes me die 
 
 To see thee laying there thy golden head, 
 
 My pride in happier summers, at my feet. 
 
 The wrath which forced my thoughts on that fierce law, 
 
 The doom of treason and the flaming death, 
 
 (When first I learnt thee hidden here) is past.
 
 FROM 'GUINEVERE: 169 
 
 APT0YP02. 
 
 
 (xrj vvv TrapetuaL fx w? KaTrjyopov ook€L' 
 T^KO) yap ovK dpaid a avSijcroJv, yvvai, 
 fjLOvov fxev ovv, cus coktlct , ov ylsv^oppaybiv, 
 lh(iiv ere delcrav cS8e xpvcravde^; Koipa 
 Beputv dyaXfxa (jaXrepiov ^a/AatTrereg. 
 opyr) yap rj fx in wyLOV r}y w/xry voixov 
 (fyepovTa rot? TrpoBovcnv efxirvpov Blktjv, 
 0)9 irpcoTou jjSr] cr ol Trec^euya?, ot^erat.
 
 1 70 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 The pang — which while I weigh'd thy heart with one 
 
 Too wholly true to dream untruth in thee, 
 
 Made my tears burn — is also past, in part. 
 
 And all is past, the sin is sinn'd, and I, 
 
 Lo ! I forgive thee, as Eternal God 
 
 Forgives : do thou for thine own soul the rest. 
 
 But how to take last leave of all I loved ? 
 
 golden hair, with which I used to play 
 Not knowing ! O imperial moulded form. 
 And beauty such as never woman wore. 
 Until it came a kingdom's curse with thee — 
 
 1 cannot touch thy lips, they are not mine, 
 
 But Lancelot's : nay, they never were the king's. 
 
 Tennyson.
 
 FR OM ' G UlNE VERE! 1 7 i 
 
 aXyo9 S', o Tajxa 77^09 to o"ov crTaOixcjixeuo) 
 
 TTLCTT OVTa jXaWoV T) CTC jLtr) mCTTrjV Ue[JL€iV 
 
 av/x T^TTxe uepixov, /cat too ecrt? ti' ot^cTai. 
 Tt S' ov Trapco-^rjK ; elpyacrai fx oV elpyacrar 
 Koiyco, jSpoTolaLv ajcnrep d(f)dLTO<; TraTyjp, 
 Ihov, ^vveyvoiv crrjv ai) TaXX' a/cov (jipeva. 
 ^aipeiv 8e ttcus S17 tXw Xe'yeti/ to. (j>ikraTa; 
 CO ^pvcro(j)eyyel^, iraiyp! ifJLOv yepolv, Tpi-^e^, 
 rjhy] yap ovSev (o S€/>ta9 rvpavviKov, 
 a> Kak\o<; oXov rt^ ttot elXyj-^ev yvvrj, 
 ecTT rjjjLTToX'rjdr], crol ^vvov, Xvimt) 7roX.ef 
 ^etXr^ TctS' ov (jiiXolfx av ol<; TlapL<s <^tXo9, 
 avi]p o 00 ovKeT • rjv p-ev ovv ovTrcoiTOTe.
 
 1 7 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 The Dead. 
 
 He who hath bent him o'er the dead 
 
 Ere the first day of death is fled, 
 
 The first dark day of nothingness, 
 
 The last of danger and distress, 
 
 (Before Decay's effacing fingers 
 
 Have swept the Hnes where beauty Hngers,) 
 
 And marked the mild angelic air, 
 
 The rapture of repose that's there.
 
 FROM 'THE giaour: 173 
 
 Mortua, 
 
 Qualis inhaeret amans qui lumina clausit amatae, 
 
 cum trahitur damno prima recente dies, 
 prima dies tenebrarum, orbati prima silenti, 
 
 summa laborantis speque metuque precis, 
 ante resolvendae quam signa morantia formae 
 
 tabida Persephones audet obire manus : 
 ora velut placidae cernit dementia divae 
 
 non enarrandum pacis habere iubar ;
 
 1 7 4 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 The fix'd yet tender traits that streak 
 The languor of the placid cheek, 
 And — but for that sad shrouded eye, 
 
 That fires not, wins not, weeps not now. 
 And but for that chill, changeless brow. 
 Where cold obstruction's apathy 
 Appals the gazing mourner's heart, 
 As if to him it could impart 
 The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; 
 Yes, but for these and these alone. 
 Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour. 
 He still might doubt the tyrant's power ; 
 So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, 
 The first, last look by death reveal'd! 
 Such is the aspect of this shore, 
 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! 
 
 Lord Byron.
 
 FROM 'THE giaour: 175 
 
 purpureae cernit vestigia mollia lucis 
 
 tingere languentes, nee maculare, genas. 
 quin nisi quod maerens oculis obducitur umbra, 
 
 qui face, qui fletu blanditiisque carent ; 
 ' nescius humano nisi quod mollescere luctu 
 
 ille rigor durae marmora frontis habet, 
 unde reformidans gelidae contagia mortis 
 
 horret, et horrescens, quod timet, orbus amat ; 
 cetera paulisper possitve beatus in horam 
 
 credere Plutonis non domuisse minas : 
 tanta quies, tam dulce silens componit honestas 
 
 quod suprema dies fertque rapitque decus. 
 non alius decor hac etiam spectatur in ora : 
 
 Graecia, sed non iam Graecia viva, manes.
 
 1 7 6 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 THE DREAM. 
 
 A CHANGE came o'er the spirit of my dream. 
 The Boy was sprung to manhood : in the wilds 
 Of fiery climes he made himself a home, 
 And his soul drank their sunbeams : he was girt 
 With strange and dusky aspects : he was not 
 Himself like what he had been ; on the sea 
 And on the shore he was a wanderer ; 
 There was a mass of many images
 
 THE DREAM. 177 
 
 'ONEIPON. 
 
 Kav0L^ Tporraiav TrpoayeXa [x ovap irveov 
 6 Trats yap i^ijvSpojTO- yrj<; 8' avf] fxepov 
 iTTLorTpocfias Karevyev T^Xtocrrt/^et?, 
 evoJTTa o egeiTivev rjKiov piav 
 /leXa? jaei^ dix(f)e-)(eLTo fidp/3apo^ Xew?, 
 CTracr^e o eo't/ o /cavros* et^^e o Oiocppojv 
 dakacraoTrXayKTOv Kanl prjypXvo^; irXdvrjv. 
 ivravO' errippei ttvkvol fjLev TT\rjp,^vpiho<i 
 J. T. 12
 
 1 7 8 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Crowded like waves upon me, but he was 
 A part of all ; and in the last he lay- 
 Reposing from the noontide sultriness, 
 Couch'd among fallen columns, in the shade 
 Of ruin'd walls : where by his sleeping side 
 Stood camels grazing, and some goodly steeds 
 Were fastened near a fountain : and a man 
 Clad in a flowing garb did watch the while. 
 While many of his tribe slumbered around : 
 And they were canopied by the blue sky, 
 So cloudless, clear and purely beautiful, 
 That God alone was to be seen in Heaven. 
 
 Lord Byron.
 
 THE DREAM. 179 
 
 TpoTTOKrL (fxxcTjJLaO*, w S' iKeivo<^ ov npoarjv, 
 6a ^hov, ovS' ev koI to. [xev rrapcoyero' 
 6 8' rjvSev 17S17 TTvp ixearjix^pivov (f)vya>i', 
 /cXt^et? iu ayat? kiovcov, ipenrioi^s 
 7oi)(0iv (TKiaaOei';- ov Trapecrrdrovv ^^X^^ 
 voixdoe<5 KapurfKoi, /cat rt 77/309 Kpijpr) reXo's 
 evTTOikov yjv aeipalov elfjievo^ Se rts 
 crroX/xov? TrooyjpeL<s tcrra^* r}fjLepo(TK67ro<;, 
 iv (jivXeraiS avTrvo<; etg KoipLwyiivoi';' 
 Tots S' '>}f KaTacrKrjvcopia Xafxirpov aWepo<5, 
 axpcLVTov, evTrpocrcoTTOP, evaye? yekcov 
 (oar dWo [xrjSev TrXr)v to Belov epuTrpeTreLv. 
 
 [2 — 2
 
 1 8o TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 HYMN 
 
 ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST's NATIVITY, 
 
 It was the winter wild, 
 While the Heaven-born Child 
 
 All meanly wrapped in the rude manger lies 
 Nature in awe to Him 
 Had doffed her gaudy trim, 
 
 With her great Master so to sympathize : 
 It was no season then for her 
 To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. i8i 
 
 HYMN US. 
 
 Stridebat auras sollicitans hiemps 
 quom sordido velamine rustic! 
 praesepis in cunis iacebat 
 
 Patre Puer genitus supremo : 
 cui laetum amictus exuerat decus 
 Natura sorti morigerans Dei : 
 non ilia lascivo protervam 
 io^ne frui sinit hora solis.
 
 1 8 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Only with speeches fair 
 She woos the gentle air 
 
 To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, 
 And on her naked shame, 
 Pollute with sinful blame, 
 
 The saintly veil of maiden white to throw. 
 Confounded, that her Maker's eyes 
 Should look so near upon her foul deformities. 
 
 But He, her fears to cease, 
 Sent down the meek-eyed Peace ; 
 
 She, crowned with olive green, came softly sliding 
 Down through the turning sphere 
 His ready harbinger. 
 
 With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing. 
 And waving wide her myrtle wand. 
 She strikes an universal peace through sea and land.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 183 
 
 tantum precatur lene sonantibus 
 obedientem vocibus aera, 
 celetur incestata castis 
 
 frons nivibus, tegat impudico 
 contaminatae flagitio scelus 
 candore vestis virgineo premens, 
 ne labe pollutam nefanda 
 Rex oculo propiore visat. 
 atqui timentem Caelipotens iubet 
 Pax lenis astans lumine mulceat ; 
 quae laeta delabens ab axe 
 nuntia sidereo, revincta 
 crines olivae fronde, sequacia 
 ceu turtur ala nubila dividit, 
 myrtoque vibrata quietum 
 
 alma salum domat, alma terras.
 
 1 84 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 No war or battle's sound 
 Was heard the world around : 
 
 The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; 
 The hooked chariot stood 
 Unstained with hostile blood ; 
 
 The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; 
 And kings sat still with awful eye, 
 As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. 
 
 But peaceful was the night 
 Wherein the Prince of Light 
 
 His reign of peace upon the earth began : 
 The winds with wonder whist 
 Smoothly the waters kissed, 
 
 Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, 
 Who now hath quite forgot to rave, 
 While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. i8; 
 
 non orbe toto martis erat sonus, 
 non conferentum signa cohortium : 
 hastile defunctamque parmam 
 militia paries habebat : 
 non falx cruorem traxerat hosticum, 
 non excitabant armio-eros tubae : 
 Regem fatebantur venire 
 era metu pavefacta regum. 
 nox ipsa puro consiluit polo 
 qua splendidorum Sceptriger ordinum 
 decrevit immortale pacis 
 imperium stabilire terris : 
 aurae stupentes oscula tiuctibus 
 dantes quietis gaudia praecinunt, 
 quos ala parcentes moveri 
 alcyonum premit incubantum.
 
 1 86 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 The stars with deep amaze 
 Stand fixed in stedfast gaze, 
 
 Bending one way their precious influence, 
 And will not take their flight, 
 For all the morning light, 
 
 Or Lucifer that often warned them thence ; 
 But in their glimmering orbs did glow, 
 Until their Lord himself bespake, and bid them go. 
 
 And though the shady gloom, 
 Had given day her room, 
 
 The sun himself withheld his wonted speed, 
 And hid his head for shame, 
 As his inferior flame 
 
 The new enlightened world no more should need ; 
 He saw a greater Sun appear 
 Than his bright throne, or burning axletree, could bear.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 187 
 
 haerent in uno sidera desuper 
 intenta visu, dum pia numine 
 unum superfuso coronant : 
 nee reducis face pulsa lucis 
 cedunt monenti Lucifero fugae, 
 ignes micantum non prius orbium 
 pressura quam tempus morandi 
 Caelipotens vetet ipse duci. 
 quin, orta quanquam dispulerat dies 
 umbras nigrantes, ipse volantibus 
 nolebat indulgere bigis 
 
 sol faciem pudebundus abdens : 
 non his beatas senserat ignibus 
 egere terras, non tolerabilem 
 sedi coruscanti rotisque 
 flammiferis renitere Solem,
 
 1 88 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 The shepherds on the lawn, 
 Or e'er the point of dawn, 
 
 Sat simply chatting in a rustic row ; 
 Full little thought they then, 
 That the mighty Pan 
 
 Was kindly come to live with them below ; 
 Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, 
 Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep. 
 
 When such music sweet 
 
 Their hearts and ears did greet, 
 
 As never was by mortal finger strook, 
 Divinely-warbled voice 
 Answering the stringed noise, 
 
 As all their souls in blissful rapture took : 
 The air, such pleasure loth to lose, 
 With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly close.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 189 
 
 herba sedentes ordine rustico 
 simplex bubulci colloquium novae 
 sub lucis adventum serebant : 
 quos latuit, reor, otiosos 
 Pan magnus astris terricolum domos 
 mutare dignans. maior ovilium, 
 fortasse maior distinebat 
 cura leves animos amorum. 
 turn mentem et aures alliciunt soni 
 iucundiores quam quibus intremat 
 terrestre plectrum ; dum canoris 
 caelicolum velut arte chordis 
 vox apta sensus commovet intimos, 
 cui mille lentus reddit imagines, 
 ne maius humano repente 
 intereat modulamen, aer.
 
 1 90 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Nature that heard such sound, 
 Beneath the hollow round 
 
 Of Cynthia's seat, the airy region thrilling, 
 Now was almost won 
 To think her part was done, 
 
 And that her reign had here its last fulfilling ; 
 She knew such harmony alone 
 Could hold all heaven and earth in happier union. 
 
 At last surrounds their sight 
 A globe of circular light, 
 
 That with long beams the shamefaced night arrayed ; 
 The helmed cherubim, 
 And sworded seraphim, 
 
 Are seen in glittering ranks with wings displayed, 
 Harping in loud and solemn quire, 
 With unexpressive notes to Heaven's new-born Heir.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 191 
 
 quas ipsa voces aetheris in plagis 
 Natura lunae sub solio poli 
 convexa pertentare mirans 
 paene suo fore iam labori 
 regnoque finem credidit ultimum : 
 nee postulari iam sua foedera 
 ut terra cum caelo iugetur, 
 quos melius iuget ille cantus. 
 mox solis instar suspicientibus 
 afFulget orbis flammifer immicans 
 noctis verecundae tenebris : 
 stant galea gladioque clari 
 Regis ministri caelitis alites, 
 dum rite pleno murmure carminum 
 non eloquendorum Parentis 
 exoriens celebratur Heres.
 
 1 9 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Such music (as 'tis said) 
 Before was never made, 
 
 But when of old the sons of morning sung, 
 While the Creator great 
 His constellations set, 
 
 And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. 
 And cast the dark foundations deep, 
 And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep. 
 
 Ring out, ye crystal spheres. 
 Once bless our human ears 
 
 (If ye have power to touch our senses so). 
 And let your silver chime 
 Move in melodious time, 
 
 And let the base of heaven's deep organ blow, 
 And with your ninefold harmony 
 Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 193 
 
 cantasse solos huic parili lyra 
 nascente mundo caelicolas ferunt, 
 cum finxit Aeternus lacunar 
 sidereum, stabillvit orbis 
 iusto renixos pondere cardines, 
 rerum columnas inviolabiles 
 abstrusit, undantis subegit 
 
 claustra pati maris uda fluctus. 
 delectet aures o semel insonans 
 crystallinorum carminis orbium 
 quod fas sit exaudire nobis : 
 o numeros crepet in canoros 
 subtile plectrum, dum gravior tonat 
 immugientis spiritus aetheris, 
 vocesque caelestum sequatur 
 vox novies modulata caeli ! 
 
 J. T. 13
 
 1 94 TRA NSLA T/ONS. 
 
 For if such holy song 
 Enwrap our fancy long, 
 
 Time will run back and fetch the age of gold, 
 And speckled Vanity 
 Will sicken soon and die, 
 
 And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould. 
 And Hell itself will pass away, 
 And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. 
 
 Yea, Truth and Justice then 
 Will down return to men, 
 
 Orbed in a rainbow ; and like glories wearing 
 Mercy will sit between, 
 Throned in celestial sheen, 
 
 With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering. 
 And Heaven, as at some festival. 
 Will open wide the gates of her high palace hall.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 195 
 
 nam sacra cordi musa diutius 
 si blandietur, tempus in aureum 
 
 horae recurrent, iam libido 
 tabe diem maculosa claudet, 
 noxae resolvet terricolas lues, 
 ipsum inferorum ius abolebitur, 
 
 rimanda pandentur diei 
 atria Tartarei doloris. 
 turn cincta crines iride Veritas 
 terris redibit lustitiae comes; 
 
 quas inter effulgens, sororum 
 par decori decus ipsa gestans, 
 nubes coruscas mille coloribus 
 splendente findet tramite Lenitas, 
 
 et feriabuntur reclusis 
 
 templa poli spatiosa portis. 
 
 13—2
 
 1 96 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 But wisest Fate says no, 
 This must not yet be so, 
 
 The Babe hes yet in smiHng infancy, 
 That on the bitter cross 
 Must redeem our loss 
 
 So both Himself and us to glorify : 
 Yet first to those ychained in sleep 
 The wakeful trump of doom must thunder through the deep, 
 
 With such a horrid clang 
 As on Mount Sinai rang. 
 
 While the red fire and smouldering clouds out brake : 
 The aged earth aghast, 
 With terror of that blast. 
 
 Shall from the surface to the centre shake ; 
 When at the world's last session 
 The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread His throne.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 197 
 
 at Parca prudens hoc negat ilHco 
 sic exiturum. parvus adhuc Puer 
 subridet in cunis, acerba 
 in cruce terricolis piamen 
 laturus olim, qua sibi gloriam 
 nobisque quaerat : sed prius (audient 
 sopore devincti) profundum 
 fata ciens tuba personabit : 
 qualis minarum vox Sinaitidas 
 concussit arces quom rutilantibus 
 flammis et exundante fumo 
 ignivomae micuere nubes : 
 grandaeva miro territa classico 
 tellus medullis pertremet intimis, 
 quom sede Quaesitor supremum 
 gentibus aeria residet.
 
 1 98 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 And then at last our bliss 
 Full and perfect is, 
 
 But now begins ; for, from this happy day. 
 The old dragon, underground 
 In straiter limits bound, 
 
 Not half so far casts his usurped sway. 
 And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, 
 Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 
 
 The oracles are dumb. 
 No voice or hideous hum 
 
 Runs through the arch6d roof in words deceiving. 
 Apollo from his shrine 
 Can no more divine, 
 
 With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 
 No nightly trance, or breathed spell, 
 Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 199 
 
 turn plena demum gaudia nos manent, 
 nunc ordiuntur. primus enim dies 
 hie claustra lucescit draconi 
 Tartareo magis arcta passo, 
 iniuriarum dimidio minus 
 ius proferenti, dum solio fremit 
 orbandus et quassat retorquens 
 squamigerae fera flagra caudae. 
 oracla torpent : non laquear replent 
 horrenda vanis murmura vocibus : 
 non ipse Delphorum futura 
 praecinit ex adytis Apollo, 
 ferale, rupem dum fugit, eiulans : 
 non somnio, non carmine mystico 
 pallentis obtutum ministri 
 fatidicum penetrale turbat.
 
 2 oo TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 The lonely mountains o'er 
 And the resounding shore 
 
 A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; 
 From haunted spring and dale 
 Edged with poplar pale 
 
 The parting genius is with sighing sent ; 
 With flower-inwoven tresses torn 
 The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. 
 
 In consecrated earth 
 And on the holy hearth 
 
 The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; 
 In urns and altars round 
 A drear and dying sound 
 
 Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; 
 And the chill marble seems to sweat, 
 While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 201 
 
 soHs iugorum nenia, Htori 
 immurmuranti flebilis insonat : 
 iam carmen ad caeleste fontes 
 iam solitas trepidare valles, 
 quas cana cingit populus, ingemens 
 Faunus relinquit, iam nemoris Dryas 
 spissi per obscurum revlnctas 
 flore comas lacerata maeret. 
 ad busta noctu flent Lemures, gemit 
 intaminati Lar periens foci : 
 urnis inhorrescens et aris 
 lugubris et moriens querella 
 prisca exsequentes carmina flamines 
 terret, videntur frigida marmora 
 sudare dum sedem relinquens 
 quisqiie suam fugit incolarum.
 
 202 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Peor and Baalim 
 
 Forsake their temples dim, 
 
 With that twice battered god of Palestine ; 
 And mooned Ashtaroth, 
 Heaven's queen and mother both, 
 
 Now sits not girt with taper's holy shine ; 
 The Lybic Hammon shrinks his horn. 
 In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz mourn. 
 
 And sullen Moloch fled 
 Hath left in shadows dread 
 
 His burning idol all of blackest hue ; 
 In vain with cymbals' ring 
 They call the grisly king, 
 
 In dismal dance about the furnace blue ; 
 The brutish gods of Nile as fast, 
 Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 203 
 
 delubra iam sublustria deserunt 
 Peorque Belusque et Syriae deus 
 quern stravit hand simplex ruina : 
 cornua iam Libycus retraxit 
 Ammon, iacentem iam Tyriae gemunt 
 Thaumanta frustra, nee genitrix deum 
 et praeses Astarte Selenes 
 cincta piis levat ora taedis. 
 formidolosis in tenebris atrox 
 linquens Moluchus fugit imaginem 
 ignes per admotos nigrantem : 
 nee ehorus ut quatiat laborans 
 eirea caminum eymbala luridum, 
 rex torvus audit, par rapit Isidem, 
 par terror Horum, par Anubim, 
 Niliaeae saera monstra ripae.
 
 204 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 Nor is Osiris seen 
 
 In IMemphian grove or green, 
 
 Trampling the unshowered grass with lowings loud 
 Nor can he be at rest 
 Within his sacred chest, 
 
 Nought but pro roundest hell can be his shroud ; 
 In vain with timbrelled anthems dark 
 The sable-stoled sorcerers bear his worshipped ark. 
 
 He feels from Juda's land 
 The dreaded Infant's hand, 
 
 The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn ; 
 Nor all the gods beside 
 Longer dare abide, 
 
 Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine : 
 Our Babe, to show His Godhead true. 
 Can in His swaddling bands control the damned crew.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 205 
 
 iam non Osirim, dum nemoris vias, 
 dum prata passu proterit arida, 
 miratur immugire Memphis : 
 cista deum premit inquietum 
 imi premendum tegmine Tartar! : 
 frustra, insonantes carmina tympanis 
 horrenda, ferali vehentes 
 
 veste magi venerantur arcam. 
 intendit Infans ludaicis procul 
 surgens in oris attonito manum : 
 visus laborantes oborti 
 
 lux hebetat nova Bethlemitae : 
 nee ceteri iam di neque desinens 
 Typhon in orbes anguineos manet : 
 testatur in cunis quis instet 
 ausa regens Puer impiorum.
 
 2o6 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 So when the sun in bed, 
 Curtained with cloudy red, 
 
 Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. 
 The Hocking shadows pale 
 Troop to the infernal jail, 
 
 Each fettered ghost slips to his several grave. 
 And the yellow-skirted fays 
 Fly after the night-steeds, leaving their moon-loved maze. 
 
 But see the Virgin blest 
 Hath laid her Babe to rest, 
 
 Time is our tedious song should here have ending. 
 Heaven's youngest-teemed star 
 Hath fixed her polished car, 
 
 Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending : 
 And all about the courtly stable 
 Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable. 
 
 Milton.
 
 MILTON'S HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. 207 
 
 sic quom cubilis sol etiam latens 
 post vela rubris texta vaporibus 
 OS fulcit eois fretorum, 
 
 Tartareus rapit agmen umbras 
 exsangue career : quaeque suum petunt 
 vinctae sepulcrum, nee croceae choros 
 luna sub arridente nectunt 
 
 noctis equos famulae sequentes. 
 ast ecce Natum composuit sinu 
 felice Virgo ; iam numeros decet 
 finire longos : ecce leves 
 
 qua minima nitet aethra currus 
 iam Stella iunxit, fax domini torum 
 ministra servans, dum stabulum tuens 
 regale caelestum sub armis 
 
 prompta cohors operae refulget.
 
 2o8 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 ODE. 
 
 INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS 
 OF EARLY CHILDHOOD. 
 
 I. 
 
 There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, 
 The earth, and every common sight, 
 To me did seem 
 Apparelled in celestial light, 
 The glory and the freshness of a dream. 
 It is not now as it hath been of yore ; 
 Turn wheresoe'er I may, 
 By night or day, 
 The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY! 209 
 
 ANAMNH^II. 
 
 r^v yji6vo% evT€ vdnai /cat iricrea koX pvTov vhcop 
 /cat ^6ovo<!; ocrcra tv^olixl (jvvrjOed rrep TTOTikevacroiv 
 (f>€yyo<s i(f)aLveT efiouye SloctSotou d/A^teVao'^at, 
 0e(nr€<TL7)v aKrlva ttotcliviov oj(xiTep oveipov 
 aXX d TOT rjv ear ovkgt' iycj yap ottol /ce TpdncofJiaL 
 
 V/)5 C / / V \ J/ 
 
 ova opooj vvKTcop Ta Trpiv ei<Tioov ovre /act r)[xap. 
 J. T. 14
 
 2 1 o TRA NSLA riONS. 
 
 II. 
 
 The Rainbow comes and goes, 
 And lovely is the Rose, 
 The Moon doth with delight 
 Look round her when the heavens are bare, 
 Waters on a starry night 
 Are beautiful and fair ; 
 The sunshine is a glorious birth ; 
 But yet I know, where'er I go, 
 That there hath past away a glory from the earth. 
 
 III. 
 
 Now while the birds thus sing a joyous song. 
 And while the young lambs bound 
 
 As to the tabor's sound, 
 To me alone there came a thought of grief: 
 A timely utterance gave that thought relief, 
 
 And I again am strong : 
 The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep ; 
 No more shall grief of mine the season wrong ; 
 I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, 
 The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep,
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY: 211 
 
 OfxiJLa pooov, ■)(aipei 8e nepLCTKOTreovcra creX-qvr) 
 
 ovpavov evT a/caXvTTTo? vTreppdyr) acnreTo<? aWi^p' 
 
 Ifiepoev Be tl vvkto9 vnal ttoXw darepoevTi 
 
 vdjxara fiapixaipeL, fxdXa r rjXiov dyXaojaetSes 
 
 opvvixdvoio 7rp6(TO)Trov' iyo) Be tol ol Kev akcoixai 
 
 eord^ 6 TL Br) ■^6ovo<; olBa navaioXou e^aTroXtuXds. 
 
 vvv 8', ore 770,9 opvLS (f)L\6(f)pov /xeXo? aide /xeXt^et, 
 
 evT dpve<; crKaipovcri ve6rpo<^oi oiov vtt avX(t>v, 
 
 fLOVvo) iiryjkdeu e^ioiye tl 7rev0Lixov' dXX inLKaLp(o<; 
 
 i^eLTTcbv rdS' eXvcra kol eppojafxaL irdXLv rjBr). 
 
 crakTTLtflva-L ixev vxjJoO^ dir rjXL^dTOLO (f)dpayyos 
 
 pyjyvvfJLevoL ^elfxcLppoL' iyo) Be tol atcrtov coprju 
 
 ovKeT d^eL ixLavoi' Std yap TTTu^a? dpOev 6peLvd<; 
 
 'H)(ou? ixvpLocfxovov CTTLppodeeL KeXdBrffxa, 
 
 XeLfxatvcov re jjlol vttvov dTTOTTveiovcTLV avrfxai' 
 
 14 — 2
 
 2 1 2 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 And all the earth is gay ; 
 Land and sea 
 Give themselves up to jollity, 
 
 And with the heart of May 
 Doth every beast keep holiday ; — 
 Thou Child of Joy, 
 Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou 
 happy Shepherd-boy ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call 
 
 Ye to each other make ; I see 
 The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee ; 
 My heart is at your festival. 
 My head hath its coronal, 
 The fulness of your bliss, I feel — I feel it all. 
 Oh evil day ! if I were sullen 
 While Earth herself is adorning, 
 
 This sweet May-morning, 
 And the Children are culling 
 
 On every side, 
 In a thousand valleys far and wide, 
 Fresh flowers ; while the sun shines warm. 
 And the Babe leaps up on his Mother's arm : —
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY! 213 
 
 ^Qoiv re yiyrjOev airacra, (f)Lko(f)po(rvvr)ai t avelrai 
 TTOUTOS ofxov Kol yola, depeL re crvu rjirioOvfJia) 
 TTO.vO' OLfM kopTatpvTa (TvvTJBeraL edvca drjpajv 
 . FiV(f)poavvrj (fyiXe Kovpe, av S' djoi^i /xot aXpe /Botjtvv, 
 otOTToX', ojs oXoXvyixa Topcos (Tedev, oX/Bl, aKOvo). 
 
 eKXvov, ov jxe iraprjXde, p^aKapraToi, ola OpoecTe 
 avTiTVTT dXXrjXoLS, thou avOear'qpC ayovTUiv 
 alSep virepde yeX(x)VTa, TrdpeLjxL Se /cavro? eopry 
 ocrcrov 6ixo(f)poveeLv ye, KOjxa^ t dvihiqcra kol avTO<s 
 fxvpC laLvofxevoq fxeTOi fxvp" laivoixivoLcriv. 
 Tj ixdXa Kev neXoL rjfxap dvaloriov el aKv6po<i eurjv 
 vvv eyo) evT tjcoOl depov<i yXvKvixeiXiyov copy 
 yala fxev dyXatrjv irepi/SaXXeTaL, iv Be vdiTrj(Tiv 
 dvde dv'qpWp.oLCTLv iepcnjevTa hpeirovTai 
 TTtttSe? e/cas re TreXa^ re, (f>iXov r imSeSpoixev elXrjs 
 Kavixa, jSpecfio^; t avdOpo^CKet iv dyKaXiSecrcn reKovcr'qs'
 
 2 1 4 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 I hear, I hear, with joy I hear! 
 — But there's a Tree, of many, one, 
 A single Field which I have looked upon, 
 Both of them speak of something that is gone 
 The pansy at my feet 
 
 Doth the same tale repeat : 
 Whither is spread the visionary gleam ? 
 Where is it now, the glory and the dream ? 
 
 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : 
 The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, 
 
 Hath had elsewhere its setting, 
 And Cometh from afar : 
 
 Not in entire forgetfulness. 
 
 And not in utter nakedness, 
 But trailing clouds of glory do we come 
 
 From God, who is our home : 
 Heaven lies about us in our infancy !
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY! 215 
 
 17 rao aKTjKO , aKTjKo , ev(ppavu7jv oe r (ikovcov. 
 
 ctWa. yap eK ttoWcjv fxefxdXrjKe fJLOL iv ye tl 8evdpov 
 
 €19 oiyp6<5, w T a/xcfyoj [xev eTreSpaKov elaopoojv Se 
 
 otSct TL Koi TTodeojp- TO he nap ttool TavTov vTrelire 
 
 XevKoiov rroi hrj (f)d(T[x dyXaov e/CTreTTOTarat ; 
 
 TTOv K eTL ixapixapoevTOS lhoip.e6a (jieyyo<i oveipov ; 
 
 KWfia [jLovov Xrfdr) re /SpoTcov yevo<i' rj he crvv rjiMLV 
 
 ^^XV y^yvop.evoi(TLv dvea)(e6e, /xopcrt/xo? dcrTijp, 
 
 dXXodi TTOV KaTahvcr eKadev TTodev e^aveTeCkev. 
 ovK dpa hy] iravTOiv ye XeXacrfteVot, ovk dpa yvfxvol 
 
 TrdpTT] y\ a XX' aiyXrjV tlv icfieXKOfxevoi pecfteXdcjv 
 
 Sai/jta Trarpo? TrpoXnrovTe^ LKdvofxev dBavdTOto. 
 
 dfji(f>l ^pe(f)o<g veapov Terarat ^ctos ovpaviuivajv'
 
 2 1 6 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 Shades of the prison-house begin to close 
 
 Upon the growing Boy, 
 But he beholds the light, and whence it flows 
 
 He sees it in his joy ; 
 The Youth, who daily farther from the east 
 
 Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, 
 
 And by the vision splendid 
 
 Is on his way attended : 
 At length the Man perceives it die away. 
 And fade into the light of common day. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own : 
 Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind. 
 And even with something of a Mother's mind, 
 
 And no unworthy aim. 
 
 The homely Nurse doth all she can 
 To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, 
 
 Forget the glories he hath known, 
 And that imperial palace whence he came.
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY: 217 
 
 TratSt S' Itt av^ofievo) arvyepov /cve<^a9 acrcrov i(f>€p7reL, 
 elpKTrj<; ola BedelcrLv o/xojg S' iiriSepKTOv eKeiuo) 
 (f)(o<; T€ fxevei irrj'yaL re (j)dov<; rap<^6evrL vorjarat' 
 OS o ap e<pT7po9 ewj/ <pevyeL rrKaK en rjixap eatau, 
 ecTT ert tt]? <Pu(reajs tepevs ooe, AafXTrpov eo epirei 
 (f)oiaixa TrpoTTOixTTOv €)(0)V' 6 8' iv dvBpdan' evTe XeXe/crat, 
 S17 TOT dno(jidiiJi€V(op vTTap etcrtSe (f)av\ov oveipcov. 
 
 Tepirvd jxeu e/c koXttcov, ocra yrjivcL, yaia TrpoTeivei' 
 eaTL ydp ws dvr^TTj 6vr)T(oi> ttoOos' ws Se ye jxrJTrjp 
 KeBvd <j>pealv vcjfjLoxra, Tpo(f>6^ irep dypoiKo^ iovcra, 
 dpefxfx eov IjxeLpeL, /3poTov ov t e^et a> evi olkco, 
 eKXeXadelv ocr dyacTTa irdpo^ ttot e:^aipe 0eo)pa)u 
 old T€ hcofxaT eXeiwev enovpaPLOV ySacrtX-^o?.
 
 2 1 8 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, 
 A six years' Darling of a pigmy size ! 
 See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, 
 Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, 
 With light upon him from his father's eyes ! 
 See, at his feet, some little plan or chart. 
 Some fragment from his dream of human life. 
 Shaped by himself with newly-learned art ; 
 
 A wedding or a festival, 
 
 A mourning or a funeral, 
 
 And this hath now his heart. 
 
 And unto this he frames his song : 
 Then will he fit his tongue 
 To dialogues of business, love, or strife ; 
 
 But it will not be long 
 
 Ere this be thrown aside, 
 
 And with new joy and pride 
 The little Actor cons another part ;
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY! 219 
 
 ^)^'tSe ya.p veapov jxeTa ^dpjxaari Tralha ve6pT0L<s, 
 e^aeres tl 6oiko<s, tvt6ov Se)aa?, ofijxa Sd/xoto* 
 ^viSe ^€1/30? irjs viv iv epyixacrc KeCjjievov, ototg 
 IMTjTpos iTnacrvjxevoLcrL (ftiX'rjfiaa'i ttvkvcl TreTracrrat, 
 &)§ yavdwj/ ot 7rar/3os eirippiei Ljxepo<; ocraroiv 
 TjviBe BeXtlov ol tl irapaX irocrlv "qe tl TrXdcrfia, 
 Sety/xa fiiov Toy t auros oveLpoiroXcop vneypaxpep, 
 dpTLBael Tev)(Oiv cro(f)Lr) ydjxov rj tlv eopTrjv 
 ftre Ta(jirj<; Trivd'qp.a' (ftLXel yap vvv TdBe Ovp,^, 
 
 TWvSe jtAcXoS TEKTCLLVeL €TrL(TKOTTOV' etTtt VefJiOVTCJV 
 
 irpdyfiaT epLt,6vT0iv re Xdyots odpoLcri t ipacTTOiv 
 yXaxTcrav av dpfioacreLe' ^6vo<; 8' ov 7roXXo<s eVecrrat 
 /cat TctSe jLtet' pt^eL, KaLvp Be Ke Tepxjje'C yatajv 
 dXXo p^adcbv BpoLfx av6L<5 dyoivitpiTO veocraos'
 
 2 20 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Filling from time to time his "humorous stage" 
 With all the Persons, down to palsied Age, 
 That Life brings with her in her equipage ; 
 
 As if his whole vocation 
 
 Were endless imitation. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie 
 
 Thy Soul's immensity ; 
 Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep 
 Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind. 
 That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, 
 Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — 
 
 Mighty prophet! Seer blest! 
 
 On whom those truths do rest, 
 Which we are toiling all our lives to find, 
 In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; 
 Thou, over whom thy Immortality 
 Broods like the Day, a Master o'er a Slave, 
 A presence which is not to be put by ;
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY! 221 
 
 K(oiJL(oB(x>v 8' icrdyeL to, fxev apn TrpocrcoTra, tol S' i^rj^, 
 navToSdn , iu 8e yepovTa<; eKOiiicohiqcre reXevTcov 
 yvV d[xeveL<i, ocraoLcn /3lo'? crvv OTrdocrc Tro/xTrr^f 
 TTc/XTret i(fir)ixepLO)v, ws ovk ayo' eV aXA.o tl ra^OeLs 
 7^X^7^' roSe, fiLfjiTJcreLS fJii[Jiy]creaLU ep.TT^.o' aixei^eLU. 
 
 cS I3pe(f)0<;, ov SoKeeL (f)av\ov Se/xa? elcropooiVTL, 
 dWd (TvvoiKOv e^ei xfjv-)(rj<; jxeya KdpTO<s aTreipov 
 (3 Traydpiare aocficov, 09 er' ovpavodev rd r iBe^o) 
 (Tw^eaL, €v re TV(f)\ol(TL ^Xencjv /xoVos, ovre tl (f)(i)V(ov 
 ovre K\v(t)v, SepKei reXera? al(ovo<s d^vaarov, 
 rats <je v6o<i fiveojv atwt'tos ovk airoXiqyei' 
 fjidvTL [xeyLCTTe, irdvok^e, Kara(TTe<j)e<; ovpavooeiKTcov 
 ola Stat /3iov dvBpe<; dfxavpoi r/zr^Xa^ocujaev 
 €xv 6p(f)vr)<; TrXay^^eVreg dvavyy]TOL<s 'AtSao* 
 creto ya/3 dddvaros Saifxcov TTrepiouos avyals 
 T<Tos vTrep/cpe/xarat, ySacrtXeus ^' ojs drJTo<; avaacrcjv 
 rjveKeoJS re Trdpecm /cat ov/c edikei irapeoiorOai'
 
 2 2 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might 
 Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, 
 Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke 
 The years to bring the inevitable yoke, 
 Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? 
 Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight. 
 And custom lie upon thee with a weight, 
 Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! 
 
 IX. 
 
 O joy ! that in our embers 
 
 Is something that doth live, 
 
 That nature yet remembers 
 
 What was so fugitive ! 
 The thought of our past years in me doth breed 
 Perpetual benediction ; not indeed 
 For that which is most worthy to be blest ; 
 Delight and liberty, the simple creed 
 Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, 
 With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY! 223 
 
 TraiBLov, IcrxuC OaXkov iXev0epir]<; 6eo(f)dvT(o 
 ^o)rj<s iv Kopv(j)yj(Ti, ri Sr) ^povov cSSe a avdyKrj^ 
 ivC,ev^ai crnevhcov KeXeai (rirevSovTa kol avTOV, 
 She fJLoiTrjv (TtJs avTOS ivTV^Ly<s irokep^itfiiv ; 
 hi^eai OJS vavTTjs (^peori p,6pariixov avriKo. (f)6pT0v, 
 KoX TO voixL^oixevov crot e7recro"eTat, d^Oei jSpWou 
 o)? TTayeros, C^rjs S' oaov ov^ viro ^dvdea Bvvov. 
 
 tS ^poroi euTu^ees, roiv iv <f)pecrl haiixovirj (j)\.6^ 
 ovhe KaTaxjJv^deicrd nep e(f)0LTaL, aXkd n€(f)VKeu 
 es j3pax^ Trapfxeivacra fxaKpov ttoOov eyKwradeivai. 
 yj Beov evK-oyiTjcriv e7rot)(o/xat, evre fBloio 
 Tov Trplv e\o} fxvyjixrjv ov fxy]v rocrov etveKa Keivoiv 
 &v Tt9 ejxeWe fidXiaT, ov rep^tos avTovop.010, 
 ovBe voov naihoiv evr)6eo<; ot? <^ikoepyoi'? 
 eiT dpyol<s Keap eXTTts vTroirrepos aprt Traracrcref
 
 2 24 T RAN SLA TIONS. 
 
 Nor for these I raise 
 
 The song of thanks and praise ; 
 
 But for those obstinate questionings 
 
 Of sense and outward things, 
 
 Fallings from us, vanishings ; 
 
 Blank misgivings of a creature 
 Moving about in worlds not realised, 
 High instincts before which our mortal Nature 
 Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised : 
 
 But for those first affections, 
 
 Those shadowy recollections, 
 
 Which, be they what they may, 
 
 Are yet the fountain light of all our day. 
 
 Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; 
 
 Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make 
 Our noisy years seem moments in the being 
 Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, 
 
 To perish never : 
 Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour,
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY: 225 
 
 ov Sta K^v avi^f) Tratav e/^o? ciXX' liri rovroi^^ 
 ovv€k\ OCT alcrOrjcrei rts <f)pd^eTaL, ovk anoKafXPei 
 TavT e5 e\eY)(pv ayoiv, Kel Koipra 7re(f)VK6T anoppeLv 
 irpXv KaTokrj^drjvai (f)povB* oi^eraf ovveKoi O' avTOj 
 , TTcts TL<s aTTtcTTOs ttXctTat oiixij)(avo<5, djJi<f)iTro\evo)v 
 
 XrjTTTd fxev ov TrepikrqTrra 8', dvqp t inl Bela npo/Baivoju 
 
 BaifxovLov TL iriiTOvde, iraOcov 8' dpa Sei/xart ^pidcrei 
 
 Oicru^ ore rts (ftcDpaTac aracr^aXtr^s iTTi^eipoiV' 
 
 TCLvr aya^iai koX tovto y , 66ovu€Ka yiyvoixevoiaiv 
 
 €vOv<; epo)<; rt? dfxavp' vTrofXiyivrjcrKOiv evvirdp^ei, 
 
 a»v d(Ta<f)r)<; tis cup' ecrrt, (fidovs S' ovv ocrcrov opoijxev 
 
 ap\ci)u r opvvfievov Kai opoipoTO^ rjyefJLOuevcav 
 
 OS 0* 17/^0.9 due)(€L T€ Tpo(f)y<; t dyavfjcnv ctraXXet 
 
 /cat ovvaraL rocrov (acne ^poroiv alwva ^av-qvai 
 
 ddavoTOiv ^LOTOLo fxepos tl ^pd^iaTov iovra, 
 
 ev(f)TJfjLOV KeXaBeLvov, i(f>TJixepov dXkTjKTOLO' 
 
 TOto9 epw9 tSea? ai/zevSea? alev iovTOiv 
 
 iv (f)pe(TLV ovk4t eireLT d<^avit^oyieva<^ dva(^aiveL' 
 
 Kol Tovo OVK ajxeXei, ovk ol(rTpo^6vr)To<; i(f)opfjLTJ, 
 
 J- T. 15
 
 2 2 6 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Nor Man nor Boy, 
 Nor all that is at enmity with joy, 
 Can utterly abolish or destroy ! 
 
 Hence in a season of calm weather 
 
 Though inland far we be, 
 Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea 
 Which brought us hither, 
 
 Can in a moment travel thither. 
 And see the Children sport upon the shore. 
 And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. 
 
 X. 
 
 Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song 
 And let the young Lambs bound 
 As to the tabor's sound ! 
 
 We in thought will join your throng, 
 Ye that pipe and ye that play, 
 Ye that through your hearts to-day 
 Feel the gladness of the May !
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY: 227 
 
 ovK dvBputu (f)V(Ti<;, ov iraiScov, ovk et tl Kario'Tq 
 Sv(T(f>pov iv<f>po(Tvvr)aL, iravcoXedpov igakaTrdgeL. 
 
 TovvEK dp dKpaL<l)vr)<s ve(^e\oiv ore nenraTaL aid prj 
 Kairrep dvoi fxdXa l3dvT€<; oixo}<i (fipecrlv elcropocoixev 
 d^diTov ov irXuxravTes eKeXcrafJLeu ivOdSe ttovtov, 
 pLfX(f)a T eVetcre TroTcofxed^ in rjCoveo'crL re TraZSa? 
 SepKOfxed^ ot TTOieovcriv dOvpfxaTa vr)TTUrj(TLV, 
 oXSfjid T d^pacrrov, diravcrrov iirrjaOoixed^ oiKeavolo. 
 
 akk ayeT ovv ^vovp^ov aetoer aetoer aoLorjv 
 opvide^, TTOCTL T dpv€<i ojxov viai olov VTt avikoiv 
 (TKalp^r- iv vfxeTepo) he X^P*^ '^^^ f^^ Troalv rjixels 
 dWd voo) y ovv Koivd \opev(Toii€.v ot t avXetre 
 019 re fxekei irait^eiv oi t ev (ftpecn cryjfjiepov tore 
 
 lieikixiov Oepeo? crTepyqOpov eviaTap^evoio. 
 
 15—2
 
 2 2 8 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 What though the radiance which was once so bright 
 Be now for ever taken from my sight, 
 
 Though nothing can bring back the hour 
 Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; 
 
 We will grieve not, rather find 
 
 Strength in what remains behind ; 
 
 In the primal sympathy 
 
 Which having been must ever be ; 
 
 In the soothing thoughts that spring 
 
 Out of human suffering ; 
 
 In the faith that looks through death, 
 In years that bring the philosophic mind. 
 
 XI. 
 
 And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, 
 Forebode not any severing of our loves ! 
 Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might ; 
 1 only have relinquished one delight
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY! 229 
 
 etra rt Set yodav Kel fxrjKeT e7roi//Ojaat aly\rjv 
 Trjv t6t€ [xapyLapo^acrav, eTretiXt re fJLTJTTor oiTicrcroi 
 Keipos ifJiol )(p6vo<; av^t? or' dypouofxco deoaenTos 
 iu TTOLjj Tt9 ekaixnev eXa/ATre 8' eV dvOecriv avyq ; 
 ov TToBeeiv xpy) (ftpovh' dXX' ippaxrdaL (f>poveouTa<^ 
 ocTcra jjievet' tolt] dvqTolcTi irpo^ dix/BpoTa [xifXPeL 
 Trpwrap^o? (^1X07179 17 t oj? yiyov aXkv av etr)' 
 fXifxvovaLV 8e ^poToi^ eK TTiqp.oveoiv TrakiuopTOL 
 (j>poPTihe<i rjSvTTvooi, TTtcrrt? ixevei tj re Se'So/3/ce 
 /cat ro TTeprjv Oavdroio, p.dvovo'L irapr^yopiovTe^ 
 (Tox^povieiv ctSoXotcrt Traprjyopir}^ iviavToi. 
 
 IxTj vv TOL, (o Kprjpai Kol TTtcre 0^17 re vairai re 
 ekireT e^' cog <^i\iovre^ d(f)r)(T6[xe0* dvTi(j)i\evvroiV' 
 vvv yap €0* vixerepoL'? ^ai pea [xdXa KijpodL 0e\KTpoL<;' 
 el Be jJLLrj'^ TraperjKd tl T€p\pLO<;, aXX' eVaotSTy?
 
 2 -,o TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 To live beneath your more habitual sway, 
 I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, 
 Even more than when I tripped lightly as they ; 
 The innocent brightness of a new-born Day 
 
 Is lovely yet ; 
 The Clouds that gather round the setting sun 
 Do take a sober colouring from an eye 
 That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; 
 Another race hath been, and other palms are won. 
 Thanks to the human heart by which we live, 
 Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears. 
 To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
 Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 
 
 Wordsworth.
 
 'INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY: 231 
 
 Tws yap ijxol (jtika peWpa to. na<f>kd^eL /car' iuavkov'i 
 
 ojcnrep 6t 1<t avrots iXacjipo) ttoSI kolvt6<s imjhoiv 
 
 lixepoeacra S' er ecrr' aKa/co? veov opvvfJLeuoio 
 
 i^jaaros dyXatrj- ve(j)eXal Se rat ^eXtoto 
 
 dp.(f)l Svcret? avvdyovTai efxoLye Trpenovcr opooiVTi. 
 
 (TefMVOTepaL rtve? "^St^, o? ov KeKp^-qKa OeojpcLv 
 
 ddXovs dvTjToyeviov' dp^a yap hpopov dvhpdcnv eyvcov 
 
 dXXov €)(ovTa T€Xo<s (TT€(j>dv(t)v re XeXoy^^ora? aXXov?. 
 
 17 KpaSiT) )^dpLV otSa Tpo(f)(o Ovi^TolaL ^ioio, 
 
 /xetXt^t]^ KpaBiTj, ^ikoyTjSii, Set/xaroeo'cn^ 
 
 ws e/Lte 017 t7a/x eiryjpev o (pavkorarov ppvet avuoiv 
 
 Kpicrcrova /cat haKpvoiv /xeXeSi^/AaTa ^vcraohop^eveiv .
 
 232 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 Epitaph on a Jacobite. 
 
 To my true king I ofiered free from stain 
 Courage and faith ; vain faith, and courage vain. 
 For him, I threw lands, honours, wealth, away, 
 And one dear hope, that was more prized than they. 
 For him I languished in a foreign clime, 
 Grey-haired with sorrow in my manhood's prime ; 
 Heard on Lavernia Scargill's whispering trees, 
 And pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees ;
 
 EPITAPH ON A JACOBITE. 233 
 
 EniTYMBION. 
 
 TTLCTTLP iycxi ^acTikel jxeTOL Kaprepia^; aKepatov, 
 
 (X) Bifxi^ Tjv, iriXovv, hajp' dvovrjTa Tekatv 
 Tods' vnep oarara r ifxol Trare/ae? Xd)(^ov rjKa Kar ovpov, 
 
 iXiriha 6' 17 Keivcjv -qv fxia Trpecr^vrepov 
 rovS' eveK iv ^etvy /careSwj/ Keap dkyea -nacr^ov, 
 
 i^XtKtag ev aK^ifj Kpdra (f)op<ov irokiov 
 TTOirpia SevSpa vdiraif; (jlol iv dWooairat? ^LUvpL^€, 
 
 Trap Se /caXot? Trora/xots /caXXtre/oov? iTTodovv
 
 2 34 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Beheld each night my home in fevered sleep, 
 Each morning started from the dream to weep ; 
 Till God, who saw me tried too sorely, gave 
 The resting place I asked, an early grave. 
 Oh thou, whom chance leads to this nameless stone, 
 From that proud country which was once mine own, 
 By those white cliffs I never more must see, 
 By that dear language which I spake like thee, 
 Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear 
 O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here. 
 
 Macau LAY.
 
 EPITAPH ON A JACOBITE. 235 
 
 \ 5 \ -^ > > / 
 
 vvKTO<; aei vocr€pot<; ev ovetpacn iraTplB' ecopcov, 
 
 e/c Se Oopojv vttvov kKcuov ewo? del' 
 €(TT€ @€0$ fx vrrkp aXcrav a^ei ^eftoXyjixevov etSw? 
 
 Travcre, TrdpoiS' u)pa<; Sou? '^^ariovTL davelv. 
 ,&> gei' , oT(o crvuepy] Tooe (rrj[ji err avoivvjxov eKueiv 
 
 irar/otSo? e/c (Teixvrj<; iq Tp€(f)€ Kafxe iraXai, 
 rrpo^ ere 7rdTpa<; XevKav ds ovKer iTroxjJoixaL aKxap, 
 
 y\(oaa"r)<s $ -qv tcra crol Kavros e^aipov tet?, 
 tXtjOl napels crTacreajv icrdira^ (f)96vov ^AyyXo? eV "AyyXa) 
 
 SdKpv l3aXelv' /cet/Aat hv(T^po(Tvvrj ^difxevo^;.
 
 236 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 [In the following series, each successive rendering of 
 Mr W. G. Clark's quatrain was a translation from its im- 
 mediate predecessor, which alone was seen by the translator. 
 The names of Sir Richard J ebb's collaborators are as follows : 
 
 "W. G. C": William George Clark, Fellow of Trinity 
 College, Cambridge, and from 1857 to 1869 Public Orator in 
 the University : co-editor with Mr W. Aldis Wright of the 
 Cambridge Shakespeare. 
 
 "W. S.": William Selwyn, Lady Margaret Professor of 
 Divinity from 1855 to 1875. 
 
 " E. D.": Emmanuel Deutsch, of the British Museum, 
 an eminent Hebraist, and author of an article on the Talmud 
 which appeared in the Quarterly Review of October 1867. 
 
 " F. L.": Frederick Locker[-Lampson], the poet. 
 
 "J. M.": J. Milsand, of Dijon, to whom Robert Browning 
 dedicated Sordello.^
 
 'POLYGLOT RUSSIAN SCANDAL: 237 
 
 An Experiment in 'Polyglot Russian Scandal! 
 
 The Field had announced that the beautiful Miss X., 
 while fishing in Scotland, had landed a salmon weighing 
 13 lbs. 
 
 No artificial files my fancy took, 
 Nature's own magic lured me to your hook : 
 Play me no more — no thought to 'scape have I — 
 But land me, land me, at your feet to die. 
 
 W. G. C. 
 
 Delia, cur mutos pisces et flumina semper, 
 
 digna frui praeda nobiliore, colis ? 
 ipse loquens, vocique paratus reddere vocem, 
 
 oro te, precibus me cape capta meis : 
 nil opus est lino fallacem ducere muscam, 
 
 vox tua perpetuo me trahit imperio. 
 desine ; lusisti nimium ; servatus ab undis 
 
 collocer ante tuos emoriarque pedes. 
 
 W. S.
 
 238 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 7rpo<; tC, XXot), noTafiovq re koI l)(dva^ alev dvavSov?, 
 
 e^ov aypats ^aipeiv KpeLO'crocTLv, afxcfyLTroXel*; ; 
 avTog, e^ojp (fyojuelu t ayopevovcrr) t ayopeveiv, 
 
 avTL^o\o> a, alpei Tolche fx aXovcra Xtratg. 
 /xiyS' ert p^rjplvdco fxvia^ SeXeacrp-a irapeXKeiv 
 
 (Tov yap det /x' eX/cet <^d4ypa /Sia irpocrdyov. 
 TTave' kiav yap cTrato'ag- iyco S' vSctrwi/ aTTocraidel^ 
 
 crolcTL irpocrapOeir^v Kairoddvoipi ttoctIv. 
 
 R. C. J. 
 
 Wie doch, o Chloe, um Fliisse und Fische, ewiglich 
 schweigsam 
 
 — Harret doch edler Wild Dein ! — wandelst Du stetig 
 einher ? 
 
 Ich nun, mit Stimme begabt, Dir Redenden Rede zu stehen 
 Flehe Dich, greife mich auf, von meinen Flehen erweicht. 
 
 Nimmer von Dir bedarf es der fliegenbekoderten Angel, 
 
 Zieht ja Dein Ton fiirwahr Dir mich mit Allgewalt nach. 
 
 O lass ab ! Allzulang tandelst Du. Fand ich nur, fluthbefreit, 
 endlich 
 
 Von Deinen Handen erfasst, zu Deinen Fussen den Tod. 
 
 E. D.
 
 'POLYGLOT RUSSIAN SCANDAL: 239 
 
 Pourquoi, ta ligne en main et le front en sueur, 
 Fatiguer ton beau corps a courir sur la rive ? 
 Qu'as-tu besoin de mouche, et d'hame^on trompeur ? 
 
 Enfant naive, 
 Une plus noble proie est la qui s'offre a toi, 
 
 Dis un mot, et pour voir dans un ceil un sourire, 
 J'accours du fond des eaux. Que tardes-tu ? Prends-moi ! 
 Et, presse dans tes mains, a tes pieds que j'expire. 
 
 J. M. 
 
 Why rod in hand and glowing, why ? 
 
 My simple little dear. 
 What need have you with hook and fly 
 
 To come a-fishing here ? 
 Smile but one smile, I'll gladly do 
 
 Much more than you desire ; 
 I'll swim to you — and quickly, too — 
 
 And at your feet expire. 
 
 F. L.
 
 240 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 SOPRA IL MONUMENTO DI DANTE 
 
 CHE SI PREPARAVA IN FIRENZE. 
 
 Perche le nostre genti 
 
 Pace sotto le bianche ali raccolga, 
 
 Non fien da' lacci sciolte 
 
 Deir antico sopor 1' itale menti 
 
 S' ai patrii esempi della prisca etade 
 
 Questa terra fatal non si rivolga.
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE. 241 
 
 T0I2 riAPASKEYAZOMENOU 
 TO EN ^AflPENTIAI TOT AANTE MNHMEION. 
 
 yav [ikv ^Ipijva TTTepvyecraLV inral Xev/catg e)(et a-rp. a 
 
 Taps'' dXka 7ro)<; ptj patera TravwXeos vttvov 
 
 8ecr/xa Trarpl? ra? )(povLa<; afdra^ ev^acTO Kev i^avahv^xev, 
 
 TOiv TTCtXat evhoKtfjicov el (jly] ttoXlv 
 
 IMuaixoavuav Trarepcov 
 
 dveyeipoL, fjiopcnixo) 
 
 o'vix<f)opa KeKpafjieva ; 
 
 J. T. 16
 
 242 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 O Italia, a cor ti stia 
 
 Far ai passati onor ; che d' altrettali 
 
 Oggi vedove son le tue contrade, 
 
 Ne v' e chi d' onorar ti si convegna. 
 
 Volgiti indietro, e guarda, o patria mia, 
 
 Ouella schiera infinita d' immortali, 
 
 E piangi e di te stessa ti disdegna ; 
 
 Che senza sdegno omai la doglia e stolta : 
 
 Volgiti e ti vergogna e ti riscuoti, 
 
 E ti punga una volta 
 
 Pensier degli avi nostri e de' nepoti. 
 
 D' aria e d' ingegno e di parlar diverso 
 Per lo toscano suol cercando gia 
 L' ospite desioso 
 
 Dove giaccia colui per lo cui verso 
 II meonio cantor non e piii solo.
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE. 243 
 
 Tiv [MepLfjivav, 'iraXta, Kopv(^av rai^S' ivveTTCO, dvr. a 
 
 rt/tag vefxeuv rots ov^oyiivoicrL St/catas* 
 
 ov yap dvSpa<; Tolat irplv dvTi7rdkov<; rat? crat? e^' opa? ei' 
 ayoovpat?, 
 
 ovo' LKavov TLva (TOLV av^etv (f)dTLV. 
 
 ak\ eVt rou5 (f>0Ljxevovs 
 
 diro TOiv vvv e^iTToKiv 
 
 rpexjjov, (h Trdrpa, voov 
 
 K€LV(t)v o' diripavTov Iholcr l\av, otrots eV. a 
 
 KvSo? dyrfpaov dvOeZ, hdKpvai SevofjLeva 
 
 yvcoOi raXati/' lv' driixia<5 fji6\e<5' 
 
 vvv yap av(0(f)ek€<^ aXyos, 
 
 (o Tivt fjiT) Keap alcr)(yva<; dfxa Kevrpov iTreiyr)' 
 
 Kelcre jSkeiroiaa /carat o"^uz/ov re Kal opcro, SiSa^dela ela-dna^ 
 
 oKlk epy dpajxevcov Trpoyovcov 
 
 olav iiraiBevaa^ cnropdv. 
 
 iraTpiScov jxeu TravToSandv dno Sevp' opyiOijxevoi arp. fi' 
 
 ^eivoi, rpoTTOv t avhdv t dvoyioioi, doioov 
 
 aajjia ^ilpqvTai, ttoOl viv Kare^ei Tvpcravioos ev/cXees atas, 
 
 ov croc^tas ^dpiv atSotecrraras 
 
 ovKeTL Xto9 dvr)p 
 
 eTriiiiv iv TeKTOcriv 
 
 ^(u/3t9 TjCTTaL yetrovwv. 
 
 t6-
 
 244 TRA NSLA T/ONS. 
 
 Ed, oh vergogna ! udia 
 
 Che non che il cener freddo e 1' ossa nude 
 
 Giaccian esuH ancora 
 
 Dopo il funereo di sott' altro suolo, 
 
 Ma non sorgea dentro a tue mura un sasso, 
 
 Firenze, a quello per la cui virtude 
 
 Tutto il mondo t' onora. 
 
 Oh voi pietosi, onde si tristo e basso 
 
 Obbrobrio lavera nostro paese ! 
 
 Beir opra hai tolta e di che amor ti rende, 
 
 Schiera prode e cortese, 
 
 Oualunque petto amor d' Italia accende. 
 
 Amor d' Italia, o cari, 
 Amor di questa misera vi sproni, 
 Ver cui pietade e morta 
 In ogni petto omai, percio che amari 
 Giorni dopo il seren dato n' ha il cielo. 
 Spirti v' aggiunga e vostra opra coroni 
 Misericordia, o figli,
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE. 245 
 
 TOt Se TTevBovrai \6yov ai ttottol aicr^LCTTOP k\v€lu, avr. /3' 
 
 0)9 iv ieva \/ai^a k6vl<; ocrrea t dvSpo<; 
 
 yvfjiva Keivov koltl fxevec, (^vyaSo? Trax/oa? aTrdvevde racieVro?, 
 
 ovSe rt /ot KTLcra<;, (h ^XojpevTia, 
 
 fivdfxa, St' ov fxeydXav 
 
 ap,€Tdp avTCL rrpeTrei^ 
 
 Trdatp evBo^os jSpoTol^. 
 
 CO KTrjaajxevoL TTpairihiov i^aiperov iir. fi' 
 
 evarefiiav, yapLv aiv AcryXtSo"? €tl crTvy€pa.<; 
 
 vixfjeTaL dSe ixeXafiirayks ftvcro? 
 
 •^Ocou ocrioLCTL Ka.6apjxol<^, 
 
 epyfxaTO^ Lcrre KaXov 6ivTe<i jSddpov, atSoc^poi^ iXa, 
 
 (f)poi-Ti,8oq olop an evxpvy^ov Trapd Trdcnv inaivov Tev^erat, 
 
 ois y €VL crrrjuecTiv iraAtas 
 
 p.r) 7rd<; KareV^a;^ t/xejoog. 
 
 v[x[xe S', cu yevvatoTaroL, roS' e;?' epyfi d>p[xafi€vov<; a-rp. y 
 
 arepyrjOpa yd<; 77a/x77et^ea racrS' eTTOTpvuoL 
 
 ras ayat' SucrSat/xoi'o?, dg cre'ySas t^St^ Ttacrt (jipevojp drroXajXei', 
 
 dviKa ra? Tvporepas i^ evSta? 
 
 KXapopoixovs d^ioiv 
 
 nope SaijJLCju d/xepa?- 
 
 (xarpo^ (ou vIol -ydpiv
 
 246 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 E duolo e sdegno di cotanto affanno 
 Onde bagna costei le guance e il velo. 
 Ma vol di quale ornar parola o canto 
 Si debbe, a cui non pur cure o consigli, 
 Ma deir ingegno e della man daranno 
 I sensi e le virtudi eterno vanto 
 Oprate e mostre nella dolce impresa ? 
 Ouali a voi note invio, si che nel core, 
 Si che neir alma accesa 
 Nova favilla indurre abbian valore ? 
 Voi spirera 1' altissimo subbietto, 
 Ed acri punte premeravvi al seno. 
 Chi dira 1' onda e il turbo 
 Del furor vostro e dell' immenso affetto ? 
 Chi pingera 1' attonito sembiante ? 
 Chi degli occhi il baleno ? 
 Qual puo voce mortal celeste cosa 
 Agguagliar figurando ?
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE, 247 
 
 racrSe kolvolv TrdvTe<i oix6(j)povo<i iv ySovXa? a/</xa dvr. 7' 
 
 ToXfxaTe Tovh' epyov Kopvcftais eVt/Sctjaei', 
 
 TrarptSo? 8', oto, crvveKvpcre, vefxeaaddrjT ecrtSdt'Te? avLav, 
 
 d? /cat e/cart Trapeta? r' efXTreSov 
 
 a, KaKOTTOTiMOTaTa 
 
 8aKpv(ov d(3pd<s d.^va. 
 
 KoX KokvTTrpav reyyerat. 
 
 Tts S17 Xoyo9 i^ Ti? ctotSd SatSaXov eV. 7' 
 
 re/cTOz^o? v/x/At TrpeTTOvToj'^ dpixocret, a(f)9LT0u 019 
 
 oo^ai' dyei (f)Lk6^po)u r ev/SovXia 
 
 Koi (Tvve(TL<; ttoXvjjltjtl^ 
 
 X'Eip 6' a/x' dpLCTTOTTOPO^ kafinpd re Kokov (fyvais oTfJLOv 
 
 lefxeva; Tiva Trip^iroiv vjxjxl /xeyaadepeo^ <i>oL^ov vofxop 
 
 ixelt^ou apcD /xeVos icravfJieuoLS 
 
 anovhau t eTTK^Xi^oi (f)pevo)u ; 
 
 avTo [xau ap/cet XP^^'^ °^ '^^^ dyo}vit,€(T0' vnep a-rp. S' 
 
 c^a-T 6£ea i/zv^at? vtto kept pa SoprjcraL' 
 
 TL<; Kef ecTTot Kvfxa p.ey u/xerepas x^Lfiaivd t ddeacfiaTov opjxd^, 
 
 Sepyjxa tl<? evOeov ocrcroiv r dcrrpaTrd^ ; 
 
 XP^fJ-OL yap ovpdviov 
 
 TTodev av dvaro)v (f)dTL<; 
 
 yapvoL ; c/etos o epco<i
 
 248 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Lunge sia, lunge alma profana. Oh quante 
 
 Lacrime al nobil sasso Italia serba ! 
 
 Come cadra ? come dal tempo rosa 
 
 Fia vostra gloria o quando ? 
 
 Voi, di che il nostro mal si disacerba, 
 
 Sempre vivete. o care arti divine, 
 
 Conforto a nostra sventurata gente, 
 
 Fra r itale ruine 
 
 Gl' itali pregi a celebrare intente. 
 
 Ecco voglioso anch' io 
 Ad onorar nostra dolente madre 
 Porto quel che mi lice, 
 E mesco all' opra vostra il canto mio, 
 Sedendo u' vostro ferro i marmi avviva. 
 O deir etrusco metro inclito padre, 
 Se di cosa terrena,
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE. 249 
 
 et Tiv ovTO<^ jxrjSkp e6e\^€, ^(opov tovo eKiroooiv dvT. B' 
 
 crra/Aev Trpocfyojvco. (f)ev, \idov ocrcr im keIvov 
 
 TrevdLjxov fxeWei S6<tlv 'iraXta SaKpvfxara iraTpl's iveiKai- 
 
 TTcG? ^e/xt? v/a/xi ttot eKkeiTTeiv Kkio<;; 
 
 TL<s he TrepLTrXofxeucov 
 
 irdoiv evho^iav 
 
 TCti/S' djJiavpaxTeL ^povo^; 
 
 Te\vav ^acrtXetat dya-KkeiTav , v(f> av, in. B' 
 
 Oea-TrecnaL XdpLTe<;, koxjya TriKpov dp^fxiv d^o<;, 
 
 vjXjXL fxev dddvaTO<; ^o)d /xeVet, 
 
 TXdfxocTL (f)dpixaKov aCTTOt? 
 
 SvcTTv^ta? dXeyeLvds, at Kct/c e? alvd Trecrotcras 
 
 'iraXta? dperdv ixvdfxav eireyeipere Tav ey^oipidv 
 
 fiarpl S' d{Ma yepa^ d^vvyiiva 
 
 Kdyo) TrpoadxjjaL /Acu/aevo? 
 
 old y icryoi Boipa ndpeifJiL (f)€p(x)v, v/xats efxav arp. e' 
 
 jxL^aL<; doiSdv epyacrlaicri iroOeival^, 
 
 dyx^TepiJiOv vaLeTdcov eho'?, ov kol KaXXire^vot TeKeoiaiv 
 ')(elpe^ dXiyKiov ijJLxjJv^co XiOou. 
 
 (xi (TO^ia<s VTTaTOV 
 
 (jTe^avov hpe\\iai<; irdrep 
 fiovaLKo.^ TvpaaulSo<;,
 
 2 50 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Se di costei che tanto alto locasti 
 
 Oualche novella ai vostri lidi arriva, 
 
 lo so ben che per te gioia non senti, 
 
 Che saldi men che cera e men ch' arena, 
 
 Verso la fama che di te lasciasti, 
 
 Son bronzi e marmi ; e dalle nostre menti 
 
 Se mai cadesti ancor, s' unqua cadrai, 
 
 Cresca, se crescer puo, nostra sciaura, 
 
 E in sempiterni guai 
 
 Pianga tua stirpe a tutto il mondo oscura. 
 
 Ma non per te ; per questa ti rallegri 
 Povera patria tua, s' unqua 1* esempio 
 Degli avi e de' parenti 
 Ponga ne' figli sonnacchiosi ed egri 
 Tanto valor che un tratto alzino il viso. 
 Ahi, da che lungo scempio 
 Vedi afflitta costei, che si meschina 
 Te salutava allora 
 Che di novo salisti al paradiso !
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE. 251 
 
 TTV(ni% el KOLKel Tt9 i.Tn)(6ovi(>iv, el TrarptSos avr. e 
 
 Keiva.'i LKdvec <t av Trokix^a^iov e6y]Ka<?, 
 
 ovv vnep (ravTov, roS' tcra/At /caXwg, TLfjual's iirl raZcroe yeyadas, 
 
 et y' o XeXotTra? et* avdpo)Troi<; Kkeo<i 
 
 fjLVOLfJia fie/SaioTepou 
 
 \t<0ivov O' lSpvixaTO<s 
 
 /cat rvTTOiv ^akKaKaTOiv 
 
 Tocrcra) rerekecTTai, ocroj nep /cat \idov iir. e' 
 
 i//a/xju,os dcfiavpoTepov ^^aX/coto re Kr)po<; e(f>v' 
 
 el S' CTrecre? crv ttot' e^ djuav (f)pep(i>v 
 
 'qe TTea-oi'i er art/AO?, 
 
 /Aet^ova 817 TTopoL dfjuv, et rtp*' ^X^''' '^<^'^"- ^OLijxoiv, 
 
 (Tvv 8' oSuz/at? yepo<; dXXrJKTOL^ reop aKXees eV 6uaT0L<? dTevoi. 
 
 o-at9 /xet' ov repireai dyXatat?, 
 
 olKTpd<s 8' v7r€/9 eras TrarptSos, 
 
 et ttot' dfrrot Kvhakiixoiv irpoyovoiv jJiefLvafxevoL arp. r' 
 
 padvixia<i akXa^dpeuoL adevo<i dpyd^ 
 
 Kpdr dvopd(i)(TovTi ^povov y enl iravpov. (f)ev- )(ake7TaL<? bcra. 
 
 Bapov ekavvopievav Xevcrcets Trdrpav, 
 
 V 5 <•/ > 5 'tT\ ' 
 
 a (T , or e? HAvortas 
 fxaKdpoiv eSpa<; (ttoXou 
 icTTdXr}^ TOP SevTepov,
 
 2 52 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Oggi ridotta si che, a quel che vedi, 
 
 Fu fortunata allor donna e reina. 
 
 Tal miseria 1' accora 
 
 Oual tu forse mirando a te non credi. 
 
 Taccio gli altri nemici e 1' altre doglie, 
 
 Ma non la piu recente e la piu fera, 
 
 Per cui presso alle soglie 
 
 Vide la patria tua 1' ultima sera. 
 
 Beato te che il fato 
 A viver non danno fra tanto orrore ; 
 Che non vedesti in braccio 
 L' itala moglie a barbaro soldato ; 
 Non predar, non guastar cittadi e colti 
 L' asta inimica e il peregrin furore ; 
 Non degl' itali ingegni 
 Tratte 1' opre divine a miseranda 
 Schiavitude oltre 1' alpe, e non de' folti
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE. 253 
 
 ovK iv Q)pa drjKaT aTrou^oixevov vvv 8' av Aca/cot? dvr. r' 
 
 aXyel TOiovTOi<;, cticne Trap' ai^ o"v SeSopKa<; 
 
 6\y8ta So^ai Ta? t60^ eKaTL rv^ag X^P^ Trdpos e/xySao-tXevcraf 
 
 Oavixd K diTLcrTov tcrw? KeWev Spa/ceis 
 
 TTTJ/jLa Tocrovhe Xeyot?. 
 
 ra jaei^ aA.A. e^upovs r a^et? 
 
 fcal TTOvou? crLyoiao(JLaf 
 
 eir. r 
 
 etvajv o o vecDjarov e^tficrrov o ofxco^, 
 TovTO (j^pdaaLiM av, v<f> ov (xoLpas iiriovTa red 
 TraTpl<; OTrcone reXeurata? ^6(f)ov. 
 d^Los el [xaKapL^eiv, 
 
 ov 770T/X09 ov KdOeXev XevcrcrovO* Tireptovo^ avyd<; 
 ratcrSe ctvvolkov iv draiq ijxfxevai, ouS' aKoXdarovs Trpocr/BkeiTeLV 
 dy/cctXa? afxcjiiTidivTa ySta 
 vvfJL<j>aLO'iv ai^fiardv ^ivov 
 
 'iraXat?' ouS' eto-tSe? daTea /cat Xevpovs yva? o-rp. ^' 
 
 fo»/xa9 /Btardv dWoBaircov vtto Xvcrcras 
 
 Satots eV Sovpacrt Trepdofxevov;, epycDv 0' oa virepraTa rewat? 
 
 'IraXtK-al Xctptre? detail Kdjxov 
 
 ekKOfxev eh vtto^ov 
 
 Bopea yaz^, fiapfidpcov 
 
 BecrrroTdv KocrfJLOv S6jxol<;'
 
 2 54 T RAN SLA TIONS. 
 
 Carri impedita la dolente via ; 
 
 Non gli aspri cenni ed i superbi regni ; 
 
 Non udisti gli oltraggi e la nefanda 
 
 Voce di liberta che ne schernia 
 
 Tra il suon delle catene e de' flagelli. 
 
 Chi non si duol ? che non soffrimmo ? intatto 
 
 Che lasciaron quel felli ? 
 
 Qual tempio, quale altare o qual misfatto ? 
 
 Perche venimmo a si perversi tempi ? 
 Perche il nascer ne desti o perche prima 
 Non ne desti il morire, 
 Acerbo fato ? onde a stranieri ed empi 
 Nostra patria vedendo ancella e schiava 
 E da mordace lima 
 Roder la sua virtu, di null' aita 
 E di nullo conforto 
 Lo spietato dolor che la stracciava 
 Ammollir ne fu dato in parte alcuna.
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE. 255 
 
 ovS' afxa^au TrXyjpe toes ttvklvolv Xvypav ohov, dvr. ^' 
 
 eVroXa? Kpaivoicrav v7rep(j)LaXov<;, SovXot? t ovvfi, ojanep icf)' 
 
 vfipeL, 
 aeixvov ^E\ev0€p(a<;, ^eipoipLaTov 
 hvcTcre/Secov np6(f)aaLv, 
 avaKapvySev, ireSav 
 ev re jxacrTLycov \p6<f)(o. 
 
 TL<; TTevOeo'i ov fXETe^eL; ttoIov 8' a^o<^ iir. ^' 
 
 ov (f)€poixei^ ; tl S' dnopdrjTOv voioicriv iav 
 
 otS' aivofJiOL, TL Beciiv avoLKTopov 
 
 ri Tiva l^cofxov v^picrrai ; 
 
 TTola Kct/c' ov reXeotcr'; ecd' oj(f)e\e fXT] ttoO' iKiadai 
 
 (TKaioavvav inl roLavrav yevo^ dyiov l(o, ^(odv tl St], 
 
 TTLKpe Salfjiov, n6p€<; ap,pjiv e^eiv, 
 
 aXX' ov (f)6daaL<; AlBov reXo?; 
 
 ak\o(f)vXoL<; (OV dOioi^ vwaKovoLcrau naTpav, arp. t) 
 
 8ovXa^' Tiv a>s, dcrroiv t dperdv vtt dudyKa<; 
 
 el(ropoivre<i reipop^evav haKedvfxoi, ovre tiv dixixe'i dpcoydv 
 
 ovT€ irapayopiav e/^7^a^ (^epeiv 
 
 ddXiOL dpKecrafjLev, 
 
 ohvva^ OekKTrjpLov 
 
 ras Sta^ratas a/cos.
 
 256 TRA NSLA riONS. 
 
 Ahi non il sangue nostro e non la vita 
 
 Avesti, o cara ; e morto 
 
 lo non son per la tua cruda fortuna. 
 
 Qui r ira al cor, qui la pietade abbonda : 
 
 Pugno, cadde gran parte anche di noi : 
 
 Ma per la moribonda 
 
 Italia no; per li tiranni suoi. 
 
 Padre, se non ti sdegni, 
 Mutato sei da quel che fosti in terra. 
 Morian per le rutene 
 
 Squallide piagge, ahi d' altra morte degni, 
 Gl' itali prodi ; e lor fea 1' aere e il cielo 
 E gli uomini e le belve immensa guerra. 
 Cadeano a squadre a squadre 
 Semivestiti, maceri e cruenti, 
 Ed era letto agli egri corpi il gelo. 
 Allor, quando traean 1' ultime pene, 
 Membrando questa desiata madre,
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE. 257 
 
 w (^tXa 6 peTTTeipa, cre9ev 8' vTrep ovk erXa Baveiv dvr. rj' 
 
 ^vvdu Tt9 atv/xat? dvopo(f)6poL(TL npoTeLvcov 
 
 (TOLcn 8' eV XwySat? 0-005 et/x'. iXerco dvfJLOu y(^6ko<s rjSe kol oIktos, 
 
 ovveKd ixapudfMepoL TrXeiaroi necrov 
 
 ov^ VTrep 'iraXi/cas 
 
 (ftdLfdho^ ya? 'iraXot, 
 
 ctXXa rwv Keiva [,vyov 
 
 €)(6ia'Tov in av^eVt OivTOiv. (o ndrep eV. ?;' 
 
 dfJLeTepcop p^iy doihwv e^o^e, ravr' iiTLhoii/ 
 
 el (TV X^^V (fipeva p.r) SdKvet, (fyvcnv 
 
 t) pa veav peTap.eZ^ai 
 
 (fyajxi ere ra? irporepas dv ^&jo9 eoiv ttot e(f)aLve<?' 
 
 TrjXeTTopov ydp diroikovTo ^Kv6ia% Ka6* oSov^ ovcrTep7rea<i 
 
 'iraXoiv <f)epTaTOi, ov tl tv^o-S, 
 
 aial, TOLavTas d^LOf 
 
 Tols dpa ov(T)(^eLpepo<5 dXyea nopcrvv' ovpavo^, arp. 6' 
 
 dvhpa)v 8' dfxa Orjpoiv t dTvepeiaio^ v/BpL^;' 
 
 rjixiyviJivoL 8' o)? ^a/xat Icrxva p.e\q, ^paz^^eWa ^ovaicn, /car' tXa^ 
 
 decrcrav, virrjv voarepol<; ird^va Xe^^os. 
 
 ctXX' oTe 817 cr(f>Lv dyev 
 
 'At8a9 Tepp e(j)(aTov, 
 
 ^tXrctra? pepvapevoL 
 
 J- T. 17
 
 2 s 8 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 Diceano : oh non le nubi e non i venti, 
 Ma ne spegnesse il ferro, e per tuo bene, 
 O patria nostra. Ecco da te rimoti, 
 Ouando piu bella a noi 1' eta sorride, 
 A tLitto il mondo ignoti, 
 Moriam per quella gente che t' uccide. 
 
 Di lor querela il boreal deserto 
 E conscie fur le sibilanti selve. 
 Cosi vennero al passo, 
 E i negletti cadaveri all' aperto 
 Su per quello di neve orrido mare 
 Dilacerar le belve ; 
 E sara il nome degli egregi e forti 
 Pari mai sempre ed uno 
 Con quel de' tardi e vili. Anime care, 
 Bench' infinita sia vostra sciagura, 
 Datevi pace ; e questo vi conforti 
 Che conforto nessuno 
 Avrete in questa o nell' eta futura. 
 In seno al vostro smisurato affanno 
 Posate, o di costei veraci figli,
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE. 259 
 
 fiarpo^ eLTTOv (f>€v, ri KeXatuecfiecou TTopdovfjLei'OL dvr. & 
 
 irXayatg ^veXXai' BvacTKoyiev, oIctl npocrrJKev, 
 
 (o Trarpa, crov Kahop.evoicri rreaelv ^dpp.ai<; ivX Kvoiaveipai'i ; 
 
 vvv 8', ipaT(t)iTLS or al(oi> TrpocryeXa, 
 
 <j)d€Lp6{jie9' otSe (re6ev 
 
 St^a, TTavTa vu)vvpiOi, 
 
 (Tcov vnep \.vp.avT6po)v. 
 
 roiavT 6ko(f)vpojX€vcov KpvcTTakXoira^ err. 6' 
 
 ate yala \vyv<^6oyyoi r dviixoKTi vdirai. 
 
 TOivhe fiiov fiev diraXXaydv kd)(ov' 
 
 <T(ofxaTa 8' o'iKTpd OavovTOiv 
 
 a/A TTehioiv ^lOvo^XiqTov^ TrXct/ca? 6Kpvoe(T(Ta<^ 
 
 aTTTou vwaLupLa urjpes' ooga o tcra tov eireir atet ^povov 
 Tolcri X.a/x77/50t9 aya^ots ^' eVerat, 
 8etXot ^' opjotoi^ et rti^e? 
 
 Tjcrav avTCJU kol KaKoL (h fjLeyaXdu or) (TVixcfyopav crrp. i 
 
 KvpaavTe<; e/ATra? cnipyere- TnjixaaL o eiirep 
 
 IxiJTe vvv ixTjT elcTOTTLCTO) TTOTc TTatcbv vfxeTepoLO'L TTeXacTcrei, 
 
 rXare roS' avTo fxa66vre<s Kaprepeiv. 
 
 (Tiya Tpe(f)OVTe<; a^o? 
 
 dveyeaS^ i^aiaiov, 
 
 yvrjCTL o) TEKV at/Atas 
 
 17 — 2
 
 26o TRANS LA TIONS. 
 
 Al cui supremo danno 
 
 II vostro solo e tal che s' assomigli. 
 
 Di voi gia non si lagna 
 La patria vostra, ma di chi vi spinse 
 A pugnar contra lei, 
 Si ch' ella sempre amaramente piagna 
 E il suo col vostro lacrimar confonda. 
 O di costei ch' ogni altra gloria vinse 
 Pieta nascesse in core 
 A tal de' suoi ch' affaticata e lenta 
 Di SI buia vorago e si profonda 
 La ritraesse ! O glorioso spirto, 
 Dimmi : d' Italia tua morto e 1' amore ? 
 Di : quella fiamma che t' accese, e spenta ? 
 Di : ne piu mai rinverdira quel mirto 
 Ch' alleggio per gran tempo il nostro male ? 
 Nostre corone al suol hen tutte sparte ? 
 Ne sorgera mai tale 
 Che ti rassembri in qualsivoglia parte ?
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE. 261 
 
 lxaTp6<;, a 7rdvT(ov virdTOicn ha[xaadeLcra ttovoi? dvr. l 
 
 ovK ecTTi irXrjv vjjloju 6? OjU-ota rreTTOvOev. 
 
 ov yap vixlv ju,e)a<^eTat 'iraXta, Keivo) 8' o? iircopa d€KOVTa<; 
 
 TTaTpiSi Svcrdeo<; dvrdpai /xct^ai'* 
 
 (wv ei/€/c a^uoixeva 
 
 Spocrov alel SaKpvojv 
 
 vfJifJiL KOLvdv et/3eTat. 
 
 TTw? ai/ 7roX.v7n7/xovo9 atSo) TrarptSo? eV. / 
 
 ra? TTptt* VTTeLpo)(ov dWcov /cuSos detpajLteVa? 
 
 ev irpaTrlhecTdi Xd^OL rt? iKjovoiv, 
 
 09 /c epvcraiTO k\vSo)uo<; 
 
 eK fjL€Xapo<s /3a$vhivov rpij^ojxivav KaixdroLcnv ; 
 
 elne fxai, a> fxaKdpoiv rt/xatcrt^' aotSe /xtyeis vxljL6p6voL<s, 
 
 dpa era? ot^erat 'IraXta? 
 
 TTpoppitflf; eK dvaroiv eyaw?; 
 
 dyo' ctTreVySa/c' evOeo'? d ere Karel^ 6p(xa (fypevcov, arp. k 
 
 ouo avuL<; afiav, oj? to irapoiu , oovvaojv 
 
 [xaXOaKov KOV(f)L<jfxa (jiepoLa avadaXiqaeL ttot iv dvhpdai {xvpro^; 
 
 dpa ^a/AatTrereojt' d/XjUt (f)Oi,v€L 
 
 irdcra X'^P^'^ crrecfyducov, 
 
 irapoixoLov o ovBafiov 
 
 (TOL Tiv av dpexjjei TTarpi<^;
 
 262 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 In eterno perimmo ? e il nostro scorno 
 Non ha verun confine ? 
 lo mente viva andro sclamando intorno : 
 Volgiti agli avi tuoi, guasto legnaggio ; 
 Mira queste ruine 
 
 E le carte e le tele e i marmi e i templi ; 
 Pensa qual terra premi ; e se destarti 
 Non puo la luce di cotanti esempli, 
 Che stai ? levati e parti. 
 Non si conviene a si corrotta usanza 
 Questa d' animi eccelsi altrice e scola : 
 Se di codardi e stanza, 
 Meglio r e rimaner vedova e sola. 
 
 Leopardi.
 
 MONUMENTO DI DANTE. 263 
 
 r\ p ecraet KeijxeOa ; fxirpov ap ovk ecrrat xjjoyov ; dvr. k 
 
 t<bia.% eyoij ear av jaere^o;, rctSe TTavra 
 
 TraaL Kapv^co' irpoyovcov dpeTO.^ fMvdcracrde, yivo^ nokv ^eipov 
 
 Xeixfjav^ 6 pare rdh^ (ou KelvoL KafMOV, 
 
 IlL€piSo)v T iparav 
 
 jLteXeras Icttcuv 6* v<^a? 
 
 epya r' evfiopcfiCDU Xidojv 
 
 vaov^ re ueiov ^oovo^ icru ot,a<? ireoov err. k 
 
 arei/Sere' KvSaXifJicov S' et rrdu <^d.o<i eK narepcov 
 
 vjjLixi fjidrav /ce^vrat, ttoI xPV /^e^t'ctf ; 
 
 eKTOTTOL eppere yata?* 
 
 ov ydp eoLKev dvdvSpoL<; Opeixpacn Trarpio ofiikelv 
 
 d peyakocfipova TraiSeva-'' el 8e yeprjcreraL dxpvxai^ \Lpy]P, 
 
 Kpecrarov alcrdv Ke Xa^otca irekoL 
 
 XVP^ ''■' eprjpa r elcraev.
 
 264 Xni EN BONHNIAI nANEni^THMini 
 
 THI EN BONONIAI nANEDIl^THMmi 
 EKAT0NTAETHPIA02 OrAOHS EOPTHN AFONTI. 
 
 Marep ap^(aia. crocf)La<;, 60€u Fivpcona TTokai arp. a 
 
 Ta9 opOo^ovXov <j6aJ5 ©eju-tro? veoi' (LpTO, 
 
 epyixdroiv la/xa /BiaiOTaTcov, aTvyvav ikaTTjpiov arav, 
 
 Euvoju,tas dyavo<; Koipv^ ^poToi^, 
 
 ^ei/xaro? w? huo(f)epov 
 
 ore (fiOLVLKoii'defxov 
 
 Tjp TTeSdixeLxjjap yvai,
 
 EKATONTAETHPIAOS OFAOHS EOPTHN AFONTI. 265 
 
 (j^atSt^a? X'^^P' I'^ctXtas Ovyarep, rav aaTeoiv avr. a 
 
 TTpecr^iCTTOv i^ d\Xa)v e<j)i\a(Tev 'Addva, 
 
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 vvv ae /xaX' dSvrrpooL^ SatSaXXe/xei' 
 
 Kaipiov ev\oyiaL<i, 
 
 ot7, eopra^ yeveai 
 
 TTavTocrip,vov ^ctp/xaros* 
 
 'flpai yap iTrepxpfxevai 6vaTol<q Ato? eV. a' 
 
 €19 eKarovTaSa^ okto) Br) reXea? krioiv 
 
 oogav ivcrT€(fiavov Boz/wvta? 
 
 fxapTvpeopTL yeyaKELV 
 
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 TTavTooarrdv oltto TTefxtfiBelaaL ttoXlojp iTOTLvicrovO' kcrricLv 
 
 (^ikrarav ntepiSecrcrt, Tedv 
 
 KOiva Kke'iqoicrai vctyotv. 
 
 ^avTi Tvpa-avov^ fxev d.pr)'L<f)L\ov<; KTicrcTai jSdOpoLf; a-rp. /3' 
 
 iv Tolcrhe ^ekaivav, o0l x^vfxa Sa/3ava9 
 
 yeiroi'O'; 'Fijvco irehiov ^pi^ei ^KirevvivoOev evpvjJLeTOJTTOv, 
 
 TTiova Scopa Tpe(f)ov Aafxdrepo^; 
 
 ovS' dnaSov Bpo/xtw* 
 
 ocra o €(TT AiveLaoav 
 
 iv X6yoL<;, (Tiyd(Jop.ai'
 
 266 mi EN BONHNIAl nANEniSTHMIHI 
 
 Moicra, tIu S* oipx^ yXvKepcov VTTOKeicrdoi cfiOeyixaTcov, avr. yS' 
 
 Tr]Xov Tt9 w? (TTik^cou dptSet/cero? darijp, 
 
 ovK aixavpo)6ev yeueal'i ajxa TroWalcTLV /cA.eo9 Ipvepioio^- 
 
 KafjLTrdBa KeLvo<; dvecrx opdav At/ca?, 
 
 (TTrepixaTa ySaia irvpo^ 
 
 dveyeipai<; Keifxeva 
 
 Bapov ev xjjvxpa cnroSo)' 
 
 reOfxctiv 69 dvoL^e 0eoSjj.dTOiv 6Sov<; eV. ^' 
 
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 dWd TOT d^vueTOLS epfxyjveojv 
 
 KapT €)(dTlt,OV iu d(TTOL<i' 
 
 rjv T€ ve(f>o<g jBapv Srj Xd6a^, irplv iKelvo<; di^acrrct? 
 evOvTTopov (ttl/3op e^ayri<Jio<i dyefxoueva di//€vSeo9, 
 TTavTl ^py(p Kavova'i 7rpo(f)ep(ov 
 ardOfJia TraXatct av[JLfxeTpov<;, 
 
 T(j)v re TTplv py]Tpas dueSet^e vofxoju. ovo 6pff)auaL<; arp. 7' 
 
 Kapnolo /^ouXal? diTTeTO' tov yap oTTiauev 
 
 dXXo<; i^ dXXov Sia8e^d/aei/ot, ^avBd<; <pXoyl SaSos ofioiov, 
 
 TovSe BefiicTKOTrov ddXrjTai ttovov, 
 
 dvhpa<; aihpoSiKa<; 
 
 IT pohiBd(TKovTe<; ao(f)a><; 
 
 dyov et? evKOcr{XLau' 
 
 1 Irnerius (circ. a.d. 1080 — 11 18), 'merito appellatus liicerna iuris, tanquam 
 primus illuminator nostre scientie' (Diplovataccius ap. Sarti P. 11. 263). 
 
 2 lustinianus.
 
 EKATONTAETHPIA02 OFAOHS EOPTHN AFONTI. 267 
 
 )(prj Se Travpov; yapvev iv Tro\i(Tf ^ev^ou Xvpa dvr. 7' 
 
 Tov ^pvcreaif; yXcocrcra'; ^apirecr(TL Kkeevvov^. 
 
 firjS* dothau dixixopo<; €(tt(o 6 Orjcravpo^ 6ep.iTiiiv (BaOvixrjTa 
 
 Trap irpoTepoicTL kXvov'^, Stcrcrots' dfjcd 
 
 roicriv incopyfJiLaj/ 
 
 uecrav ato eopai irvKav 
 
 rdv 'Vaj^evvcLidv airo' 
 
 TToWatv Se [xe Kaipo? ipvKei ^aTepoiV err. 7' 
 
 fjLvdfxova, TOiv an dcoTov SpexjJOfjLefo^ TTpaTriSayv 
 
 VLcreTO TTavra^odev rrkeicTTOix^poro'; 
 
 69 TrokvKOivov o/xtXo9 
 
 ofxcfyaXov Kvcrovia^' ^vvdv jxev ott' rjXdov levTe^^ 
 
 oaaoL 'laTTfyia? r' eWo? Trv/otara? ne^iajv 0' IhpvvB' Iva 
 
 TrXaariav ' AXirecri ydv voacriv 
 
 dpBei Ta)(vppco(TTOL^ IlaSos- 
 
 3 Bulgarus, ' os aureum '. 
 
 * Martinus Gosia, 'copia legum'. 
 
 ^ Jacobus de porta Ravennate ; Hugo de porta Ravennate : quo cognomine 
 significatur ea Bononiae regio in qua habitabant, cum quattuor priscae urbis 
 regiones a portis quattuor maioribus nomina invenerint (porta Ravegnana, porta 
 Procolo, porta Fieri, porta Stieri). — De his quattuor doctoribus, qui saeculo post 
 natum Christum duodecimo medio Bononiae florebant, post alios dixit Savigny, 
 Gesch. des romischen Rechts im Mittelalter, IV. 66 sqq. 
 
 ^ ' Citramontani ' Universitatis Bononiensis discipuli, olim in Nationes septem- 
 decim divisi.
 
 268 THl EN BONHNIAI nANEniSTHMim 
 
 tJX^c S' avBp(i)v aWoBpooiv auapLOfirjT eOvea' , arp. B' 
 
 ot FaXXta? voLOu TrXaKaq, i^Se Tayoto 
 
 Trap [xeXafj.(f)v\XoLO poalcn, TroXvirkayKToq ^' Iva KiSuaraL Icrryoo?, 
 
 of? T 6peo)v KaOvTrepd' 'EpKvuiojv 
 
 ets aXa XapfiaTiKau 
 
 reraTO (TTaujx , ot r ex°^ 
 
 vacro? "Ay-yXw^/ ia^dra';, 
 
 TTOvrto? rai/ ^OpcroTpiaiva (j6vXa^ ou \dder at' dvT. S' 
 
 TO,? S17 TTor' ekOoiV Tovhe yovo? iTToXiidpov^, 
 KaWiirvpyo'; tov ^(xtiv oTSe Xdyot? 'O^wvta ei^ TroXtotcrt., 
 
 0€<T[XO(l)6pOLO lX€pip.Va<^ eVCTKOTTOV 
 
 (TTrelpe StSacr/caXtav 
 erepov S' ovk aWouev 
 dvhpa Te6[jLov<; elhora^ 
 
 "^ ' Ultramontani ', ab omnibus fere Europae partibus Bononiam confluentes, 
 quorum Nationes censebantur duodeviginti. 
 
 8 Vacarius, qui cum Angliam circ. a.d. 1140 venisset, iurisprudentiae studia 
 Oxonii instituit. 
 
 ^ Franciscum Accursii, doctorem Bononiensem, clarissimi glossatoris filium, in 
 Angliam vocavit rex Edvardus I., qui a Palaestina rediens A.D. 1273 Bononiam 
 devertit. Regis ' secretarius ', 'familiaris', 'clericus' appellabatur Franciscus, qui 
 decennium in Anglia commoratus cum multa ac gravissima negotia prudenter 
 gessisset, in patriam reversus docendi munus Bononiae denuo suscepit.
 
 EKATONTAETHPIAOS OFAOHS EOPTHN ArONTI. 269 
 
 dovpLK\vTo<; evpeTO TroLjxav 'AyyXtag, eV. S 
 
 ev6' aXcepKea wpos iraTpav SvpiaOev io)u 
 
 Trap are, Bouwpia, t/cer', elSe re 
 
 fjLVpLOTrX'qSeo's iJySa? 
 
 cf>vka TOTTOiv arro TrdvTOiv (rats napeouT iv dyv tats, 
 
 a<rrvv6ixoio At/cas airevhovT aUiv cro^tas S' e^aipeTov 
 
 (ftikTOLTav 'Hcrv^ta Svz^ao'tt' 
 
 Oajx^aiveu al)([xaTav dyos. 
 
 ouSe jLtcti', rot' <I>t\vptSas TTore 0pexl/ iv TlaXiov crrp. e 
 
 ^daaaicTi Xeipo)v, voySwia^ y eveK icrXcov 
 
 TeKTOPcop yvLapK€0^ daTe'i raJS' 'Acr/cXi^Trtos e<TA(e rt iJiop.(f)ap, 
 
 djX(j)i TOjLtats^" Kkeos dA.Xots /^et' 7rop(ov, 
 
 avTOfjLaTOP S' kripco^^ 
 
 (Tvvepev vevpcov (fivcnv, 
 
 Tap 6eoi Kpvxjjap TTdpo<S' 
 
 ^^ Mondino (' Mundinus'), qui circ. A.D. 1315 Bononiae docebat, humani 
 corporis anatomiam in primis illustravit ; unde schola medicinae Bononiensis, 
 iampridem inclyta, magis etiam celebrari coeperat. 
 
 " Ludovico Galvani.
 
 270 Till EN BONHNIAI nANEniSTHMIIlI 
 
 eVrt S' oh Mata? toko? ojuacre, KvXXcti/a? crKOTrd?, aj^r. e' 
 
 ^eivav re yXwcrcro,/^ /cXatSas'', t^oc crocfyia-rau 
 
 TOiV TrdXai yi/w/xa? (f)pa.aaL oxpcyovoLS' tov^' S' €^o)(0<; y]V tote (fyajxa, 
 
 OS fJieT 'ApLCTTOTeXeL ixviq /Be^cos, 
 
 avTia o egevenojv 
 
 "Apa/Bos KXecvov (fypahais. 
 
 Taps' iKvSaveu ttoXlv 
 
 tcrrw oe Kat akkov €)(OL(r eg apcrepcju eir. e 
 
 ovkIt dpapoTa KOfXTrov' Sel^e yap a KpovLoa 
 
 TTapOevos iuddSe TTkelarov rrapOevois 
 
 ov TTivvTas (pOoveoLcra 
 
 (j)povTLSo<;' ovS* dpa Kovpas^* rravT ovvfi i^aTTokcoke 
 
 narpoOev d[JL(f)nr6\ov re^/xwv. ixekeTyjixacn^' iraTpcooLS t^vyev 
 
 dkka T dkkais [xdkeu- -^v Se rts^" du 
 
 (fxouds KekevOovq 'EXXctSos 
 
 1- Mirae saltern loquendi facultatis caussa commemoretur Josephus Mezzofanti. 
 
 " Pietro Pomponazzi (' Pomponatius '), qui postquam A.D. 15 12 Bononiam 
 venerat ibi librum ' De Immortalitate Animae' scripsit ; vir inter philosophiae 
 studiosos qui post renatam, ut aiunt, litterarum scientiam exstiterant idcirco 
 memorabilis, quod Aristotelis de aninia doctrinam ad normam Alexandri Aphro- 
 disiensis potissime interpretans princeps ausus est Averrois ('Apa^os) rationem 
 impugnare. 
 
 " Novella d' Andrea, A.D. 1312 nata ; cui pater Johannes Andreae, iuris 
 canonici doctor nobilissimus, praelectiones habendas interdum delegabat. Velo 
 ab auditoribus discreta virgo docuisse traditur. 
 
 15 'Novella in Decretales'. Id nomen libro suo posuit Johannes Andreae, ut 
 Novellae et coniugis et filiae memoria cum novitatis significatione coniungeretur. 
 
 i« Clotilda Tambroni (a.D. 1758— 1817), Joseph! Tambroni poetae et historici 
 soror, litterarum Graecarum disciplinae in Universitate Bononiensi praefuit.
 
 EKATONTAETHPIAOS OFAOHS EOPTHN ATONTI. 271 
 
 i^eXio'croLcrav yX€(f)dpoL^ tSe IlaXXa? /xetXt^ot?. aTp. r' 
 
 Tt? ndvTa K (ov <f)9ey^aid' ocra roicrSe TroXtVat? 
 
 epya XevcrcreLf Ifxepoevra ^ad'vt^oivoi Xct^tres napioajKav, 
 
 7] UaptoLO \l6ov (TfJuXevfJiaTa, 
 
 Kocr/xov oTTola Td(f)ov 
 
 6 ixeXa/jLTreTrXcou \d^ev 
 
 Ipioiv dpyayeTa<^^^ , 
 
 rje vaov<; 7r\Lvdv(f)€0)i' re [xeXaBpcov TiacrraSa? dvr. r' 
 
 eV %eipiov ddXiTei fxaXepco (TKiolcrcra^, 
 
 TTOLKiXav f) davfjiaTa noXXd ypa(f)du ; delo<i S' ayo' ot dvhpdcnv 
 
 eX0y, 
 TolcrSe TCL Koi rd KoXoiv d[xff)ap Epo)S' 
 oTov e(j)apLep'i(Dv 
 dperd^; crvpTrpdKTopa 
 <f)d TLS efjLfjiep /capStat? 
 
 ravras ttot aotoo$ av eopa^ evKKei}?' err. r 
 
 Tou Kol eov TTarepo? ^^H^^ TrpocreixL^e aeficov 
 
 KeKpLjxeuau Tpi^a ixolpav 
 
 1^ S. Dominicus, in aede Bononiensi sepultus. 
 
 1* Guido Guinicelli, poeta Bononiensis (circ. a.d. 1260), quem appellat 
 1^ Dante, Purg. xxvi. 97, 'il padre | Mio, e degli altri miei miglior, che 
 mai I Rime d' amore usar dolci e leggiadre'.
 
 2 72 Tm EN BONQNIAI nANEni:i:THMim 
 
 SatixoviOLO yap ocrcrot? KoiWeos e^nreTev olaTpo<i, 
 
 Tcju ^Oaixakcov \eXd9ou0'' wg )(d (fypaalu OvpavKitvoiv a/x^oXcts 
 
 avWa/3eip jj.aLO[xeua fipoTeav 
 
 (poppLLyy oLTreppLxjjev ^aju,at"". 
 
 Koi 77eS' ak\o)V crolcn, BouwPLa, atrrots iraXcou arp. ^' 
 
 -qv KOI 70^ evy(p^, yaXKOKporoiai /xtyeVxa? 
 
 eV /u,a;[(at5 KXtcrcraa^at 'EXev6epia<; KprjirlS' dSafxauroTTeSiXov, 
 
 daTpa^e<^ 6X/3ov epeLcrfJi OlvoiTpia, 
 
 a>s diToXaXKe 0eo<i 
 
 Tov virkp KpaTO<; Xidov 
 
 TauToXeLov 7rrjixaTo<i"^, 
 
 hcoKe 6" opp.dv dXXohaTTOv Karairavcrai heairoTov, avr. ^' 
 
 aoLfx djx^odcravTas Trep dixa^o(f)6prjTov". 
 
 ^dOi ^Tj, MotVatcrt (fiiXa, fxeydXcov raio'S' eV Kopv(^ai(Tiv eTraivcjp- 
 
 TTaicrl yap ws Trapd /ceSt'ots d(f)9LT0S 
 
 ov KaTa(f)vXXopoel 
 
 TOKeoiv fxpafjia, (jipeuwu 
 
 dv0o<; alhoiearaTov, 
 
 ^ S. Caecilia, qualem ostendit Raphaelis Urbinatis tabula in Artium Academia 
 Bononiensi servata. 
 
 ^^ Cum Fredericus I. (Barbarossa) a foederatis Italiae septentrionalis civitatibus 
 A.D. 1 176 devictus est. 
 
 22 ' Carroccio ', malus celsus in plaustro vectus, taeniis duabus albis a vertice 
 defluentibus insignis et Christi in cruce pendentis effigiem medius ferens, quo 
 tanquam signo militari in proeliis utebantur Itali.
 
 EKATONTAETHPIAOIS OrAOHS EOPTHN ArONTI. 273 
 
 TOLOvhe tIv €vcrey8es ay/cetrat yepaq eV. ^' 
 
 IxaTpoTToXeL Trap" aTroLKcou' ola KaXrjBovLov 
 
 Kal res' vnelp dXa Tre/ATrerac /xeX.09, 
 
 oLKouev oiKao enovpou , 
 
 Tr)\e7TopoL airo KXcura?*^ 'iraXoi^ e? TrpvTaveiov 
 
 (jyavrl ok koI Bopeav io(TT€cf)di'(t)u dn 'Adavdu dpirdcrai 
 
 rdv 'Epe^drj'cSa, KokXtpoov 
 
 TTait^oLcrav IXicrcrov ireXas. 
 
 23 Ad exemplar Universitatis Bononiensis a Nicolao V., Pontifice Summo, 
 A.D. 1450 constituta est Universitas Glasguensis, quam instituta ann. 1482 condita 
 vigere praedicant 'per accepta privilegia matris nostre Studii Bononiensis, omnium 
 universitatum liberrime'. 
 
 ^ Clyde flumen. 
 
 J- T. iS
 
 2 74 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 The Reign of Youth. 
 
 dvrjToiv 8' 6<jipa Tts auOo^ i)(r] TroXvrjparov ri(i-q<i 
 
 KOlxjiOV i)^(l)V BvfJiOV TToAA.' dT£A£0"Ta VOCt. 
 
 SiMONIDES. 
 
 When Youth from regions of eternal spring 
 On earth's expecting vales descended, 
 The laughing Hours, that round attended, 
 Proclaimed the Faery King. 
 
 With graceful vigour and elastic bound 
 
 He lightly touched the ground, 
 
 As though his feet could leave behind 
 
 The pinions of the wind. 
 
 His breath had Nature's fresh perfume, 
 
 His cheek her vivid bloom. 
 
 Rich as the roses that his temples crowned.
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 275 
 
 HBA STE*ANA$0P02. 
 
 While yet the flower of Youth's sweet hour 
 
 To mortal man remaineth, 
 Full many a dream and fleeting scheme 
 
 His light heart entertaineth. 
 
 From SiMONiDES. 
 
 Eure Koinovq etapo? adavdrov <^'^p- «' 
 
 e/cX-tTTotcr' ''H/Sa Karefia -^Oopo^ e? /Sacrcras yXv/cetat? eXTrtVt 
 ^aXTTO/xeVag, 
 
 avTL)( 'flpav ^Yf ^opo9 dSv /SXeTrojv, kvkXo) ttooiv deLOi<; OTraoo?, 
 
 iroiKiKoixd^avov dy\aua<5 Koipvg avacraav. 
 
 a S' i\a(f)p(i)v yovdroiv 6pixaL<? eKvpcrev evpvuixoi<^ 
 
 ya?, trrip wcnrep Kev BveWav oiKvdoo^ TrapafjLeLxjjafxeva, 
 
 irvei 8' dKpaL<f)ve<; Trvevy^a, ^poia^ 8' dv0o<? ^\eyei 7rop(f)vpovu, 
 
 poBivov uicnrep aTeixjxa KpcLTos- 
 
 18—2
 
 276 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 A sceptre in his hand was seen 
 
 Wreathed with budding evergreen : 
 
 His mantle, as it flowed, 
 
 The vernal year's impictured beauty showed. 
 
 And, lo ! from bowers and dells, 
 
 Where'er within their cells 
 
 The Passions lay entranced, 
 
 Swift on the plain, 
 
 His subject train, 
 
 The loveliest of their tribe advanced, 
 
 To keep the Faery Reign. 
 
 First, newly wakened by the breeze and wave. 
 
 The young-eyed Wonder sallied from his cave. 
 
 With step abrupt and wildered gaze 
 
 He trod the scene's mysterious maze. 
 
 Now he marked with coy delight 
 
 The sun all-glorious on the mountain height ; 
 
 Now from the glancing rays 
 
 Withdrew his timid sight. 
 
 Again recoiling as the lake displayed 
 
 His unknown image, and across the glade 
 
 Moved, like an airy sprite, his lengthened shade.
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 277 
 
 (TKOLTTTOV iv ^epCTlV (^iOpioKJOL TT peTTEL aVT. o! 
 
 ap.(jii Boi(Jiva TT\e)(6kv aeiOakii, CTToXfxos 8' dyavas afJi(f)L)(v6el^ 
 
 oelge <^oiviKav6ep.ov elapLvas a>pa<^ ypa(f)av riyyaLai KaXko<^. 
 rjvLoe, (fivWoKoixaju Xt/xeVwv -^Xojpwv r air' ayKOiv 
 Sat/jtoi'es OL rrpXv vttvov OikKTpoiq eKeivO* vnaKOOi 
 vvv ava^avTe<i ra^voia ajx TreSiop, jotaXa/catcrt 6ea^ 
 ivToXal<i eLK0VTe<3, d(f)6dpTov yevovi e^o^oL, 
 KpoLToq eopTd^ovTe<; "HySa?. 
 
 wpcoTQi;, aijpaLS /cat ^idvpols vSaa-LV KOLTa<; iyepOel'^ dpTiojs, iir. a 
 ofXjxao-L (jiaiSpd fikencov ©av/xa? fiokev KevdfMCJi'O'S dn coyvyiov 
 atrep^d [xeu (TTei^cov, SeBopKO)^ 8' W9 rt? drvl^ojxevos, 
 OecnreaiaL'; yds iv KekevdoLS' dkXoT aWovO^ ''A\iov ev Kopv^aZs 
 alool TTpocrio , aXXore S' ofxfxa rpeaais pnrdv dnelp^eu, 
 (f)pi^e S' iv Xifxvas KaTOirrpo) 6^ avTov aiBpis opoiv, 
 KoX cTKidv fjLaKvvojxevav vno 8evSp\ ajcnrep elBajkov, TrereardaL,
 
 278 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 But who the rapt effect can tell, 
 
 When Music met him with her speaking shell ? 
 
 He saw — he heard the trembling chords obey 
 
 Her cunning fingers, and he hied away ; 
 
 Till soon, o'ertaken by the tuneful spell. 
 
 Back to her side the unconscious captive stole : 
 
 Then, as awhile she stayed her sweet control, 
 
 On that strange shell, in playful mood, 
 
 He dared a mimic blow to try ; 
 
 Yet still, like one pursued. 
 
 Had half retreated ere it made reply. 
 
 And when her touch drew forth a louder strain 
 
 By viewless Echo mocked from caverns nigh. 
 
 On every side at every sound 
 
 Starting he looked around ; 
 
 And still he smiled 
 
 Of thought beguiled, 
 
 And starting looked again.
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 279 
 
 Tts Se (jipd^oL ^' Ota Sa/xets eiraOev arp. yS' 
 
 evTC Motcra Trpoirov viravTiacrev ^opynyy e^oicrq, TTOLKikoyapw ; 
 tSev 
 
 SaKTvXoL<; 7]K0V(r eXeXt^OjueVas )(opSas (To<^o1criv' (ftevye rap^oiv 
 
 aXXa yap apfxovLas eTiaotSal Sa^idvfxoL 
 
 BecTixLOV dix(j)i/Ba\ovaat fJirJTti' e^Oacav fxeXo^, 
 
 elpirev oiyvd)<; av irap' avrdv d S' 6t eTreV^^e reiw? yXvKepav 
 
 Moto"' dvdyKav, olvto^ oj? ixLiJiOvp.evo<; Kov(f)6uoL<s 
 
 (jipaarlp erXa (f)6piJ.iyya irXd^at' 
 
 elra irXd^as, ola Stw/co/xevo?, ai/r. /3' 
 
 €vOv<; is TOVTTLcrOe /xctX' w^' vire^djpei, npiv viv dvr 1(^)0 eyyop^ivav 
 KeXaSelv 
 
 Motcra S' o)<s /cat ixeltpv eVetcre Xvpav xj/dXXoLaa (fxoueiv, KXdy^e 
 
 (f)6€y[Jia(TLv avTLTVTTOLS TTeXa? e£ dvrpcov aSaXo?, 
 TrdvTOcre ySXe/x^aa Tpencov irdcrais \lj6(f)0)v StaXXayat? 
 ovs VTret^' 0)9 Si^ (f)o/3a6eLS, elra yeXdcrixacriv dorir^LOLS 
 enpeir &>? Xvcrat? fxepLixvav, kol TTToaBels TrdXiv 
 KTVTTov iirdTTTaivev veoprov.
 
 2 8o TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 Next, o Youth, to welcome thee, 
 
 Sport prepared his jubilee. 
 
 From thickets pearl'd with morning dew 
 
 He on impatient tiptoe sprang to view 
 
 With shrill uplifted horn, and called his sylvan crew. 
 
 Redoubling shouts before them sent, 
 
 Forth they rush from his greenwood tent 
 
 With their high-flourished weapons of merriment, 
 
 Thy circled throne to greet. 
 
 Triumphal in air 
 
 A standard they bear 
 
 With many a garland decked, the prize of many a feat 
 
 At the sight, a transport showing 
 From the bosom fresh and glowing, 
 Through the bright eye overflowing. 
 Loose or linked hand in hand, 
 Mirth leads up her frolic band, 
 With obliquely darted smiles 
 Watching 'gainst invited wiles.
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 281 
 
 oevTepa 8', "HySa, tre Trpocrep^oixivav crTexpoLaa ri/xat? IlatSta 
 
 eTT. /3' 
 
 evrpeina ayXaCCav 6dp.voiv S' eVpcrat? eKOope kevKOcfiacov, 
 
 oaKTvXojv S' opjjLcoa-' ctt' a/cyowv vi//t K€pa<; ktyvpov 
 
 r)/oe Kokolcr* vkav Kvvayov to\ S' ap' auXa? eic ^Xoepa§ crvixeuoL 
 
 OLTrXo) dopv^co jSeXe evcfypova TTd\XovTe<; KVKkolcnv 
 
 crav eBpav, Bvpaov tlv dphrjv BetKuvfJiepoL, 
 
 fxvpLOL^ VLKa(f)6pou iv (TT€(f)dpoL<;, fxvpLOjp d6XoL<; dy(i)voiv. 
 
 OLxfja S' W9 ravS' elSe ©aXeta 6eav, arp. 7' 
 
 ajyay evyadrj ^opov, elr dvihav elt ifXTrXaKeL(Ta<; ^(epcrlv €)(OPTa 
 
 euOeop (l)aLPOL(Td tlp* ev(f)pocnjpap, dypcop 0' d^p(o koXttojp ip dpdei 
 
 SepyfxaTL O' IfxepoePTL St' ocfidaXiJicop (jia€PP(OP' 
 
 Xe^^pca jxep /SeXe evdvjxov yeXcuTO? e^tet, 
 
 €vXa/3etTat o' dpOd^xiXXop 77/009 SdXoi' ephiaS pvirToyuipa. 
 
 a 8' ajot' ')Jor TToXXa/ct? xfjaipet re Xevpovs yva<s 
 
 oped r afx/BaipoLaa irtpei
 
 2 82 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Health is there, that with the dawn 
 CHmbs the mountain, skims the lawn, 
 Oft on nectar feasted high 
 Borne by Zephyrs from the sky : 
 Wit, that strikes with gay surprise, 
 Jollity, that grief defies, 
 And, loving every touch to flee, 
 The random-footed Liberty. 
 With half-shut eyes ecstatic Laughter 
 Almost breathless totters after ; 
 One hand holds her bending breast. 
 While t' other points at antic Jest. 
 Leisure, winding here and there. 
 Dallies hindmost, heedless where. 
 
 Thus, o Youth, to honour thee. 
 
 Thus they kept their jubilee. 
 
 Thus to greet thee all conspire. 
 
 All enchanted, all on fire. 
 
 As joys could never fail, and never tire. 
 
 Yet hitherward adown the vale. 
 
 Where murmurs float upon the scented gale, 
 
 Desire was now espied
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 283 
 
 veKTap eKTrefxcfydev Ze<^vyoot9 hiodev, nvr. 7' 
 
 crvfxnpo0v{xadeLcr' 'Tyteta Trdpecrd*' rjKeL Se Mar-qp evrpaneXov 
 
 XoipLTO^, 
 
 a cfjBdueL KOfxxjjov tl XeyoLcra, vrtK^as r' Ev^v/xta Kpecrcrdiv dvia<s, 
 /cat "TToXvTrXayKTO? 'EXev^epta, ^etpwv d6LKTO<;, 
 crvv Se FeXaj? eTrerat /Bdtc^eLos, 6a(Te [xev /xvcrat?, 
 771'Ki'a o' dcrOpuatvoiv craXevet yvta, -^epolv crvve^oiv irepa 
 koXttov et? ouSa9 TrpoTrpavrj, ra S' 6/xou Be^td 
 
 TOP aTOTTOV heiKWCTL Mt/AOV. 
 
 XoLadia 8' e{I/caXo5 dvacTTpecj^eTaL ttoXXov? St' avXcuz^as S;^^^^' 
 
 eTT. 7 
 
 acr/coTTO? ot ice (pepoio . tipa, ere o avgcou Tra<s 00 o/xtXo? ayet 
 
 ravS' ioprdv, Koivd tljxojp opyia yaOoavva^, 
 
 TTct? iuL KrjXrj9fx(p re ^eX^^ets xal /xtat' r/zv^at? ^Xdya dr^Kdp.evo';, 
 
 0)9 /tT^re re'Xov? Trore /xT^re Kopov ratcrS' ai/ fxoXovTo*; 
 
 dSovals. aXX' elaopdv ydp (pafxi HoOou 
 
 oevpo ^aivovT evO' d(Ta(f)rj irereTaL (^6eyp.ar a/x^' evoap-ov avpav
 
 2 84 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 Wandering the lonely stream beside 
 
 With an unsettled air. 
 
 Behind him scattered blossoms lay 
 
 Plucked in his eager haste and idly thrown away. 
 
 For, light and fickle in the lack of care, 
 
 His visionary mind 
 
 Still pants for objects undefined ; 
 
 And as, where'er he turns, 
 
 The wistful ardour burns, 
 
 Amid the peopled beams 
 
 Before him many a phantom gleams 
 
 In every varied hue ; 
 
 Till, hailed in vain by his extended arm. 
 
 At some rude wind they take alarm, 
 
 And vanish from his view. 
 
 'Twas then a chillness on his bosom crept. 
 
 He gazed around, and wondered till he wept. 
 
 'Tis gone — the quick-forgotten tear ; 
 
 For Hope, the beauteous Hope, is near. 
 
 Earth-delighting prophetess, 
 
 That only knows to bless. 
 
 Bright as the morn that rises to behold 
 
 Ascending vapours turn to clouds of gold,
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 285 
 
 77-0,^3 pee6poi<; S' otOTToXoto vdira^ arp. B' 
 
 ws aXvcoi/ ol^vel, oTTicrOe Se Keivrai Trop<^vpoiv ol (f)0eip6fJL€vai 
 KoiXvKes 
 
 avOeoiv a? hpexpe re KapTTa\ip.(D<^ hpexpai^ t dTreppixpev fidTaLO<;. 
 
 acrrara yap <f)popea)u, ar dyvp.vacTTO's ixepnivdv, 
 
 (f)avTa(TLaL<; re avvear ovt oihev (hv i^ierai, 
 
 dW oTToi htj Kev TpeirrjTaL, nvp tl St' rjiraToq drov e)(0}v 
 
 Sep/cerat p.op(l>oip.aT dKrlcn ^vixfXLyevT aWepos 
 
 OCT a fipoTOLS aix(f)aveu 'Ipt9* 
 
 ravTa S' el X^^P* e/crai^ucrats Kokeet, dvr. h' 
 
 otverat, vet/n&it'o? v^piv ^aXcTrav helcrcLVT , ovetpots to* d(f)avL^o- 
 lxevoL<S' 
 
 evSa h-q xjjv)(pou (fypacrlv -qXOe Kpvoq, kvkXm re TranTaivcju dydcrOrj, 
 
 €9 re /cat i^e/BaXev hdKpvov koI p.dv Sa/cpucrat? 
 
 wk' eniXacrLV e^^et* crret^^et yap a /caXa TreXa? 
 
 'EXtti?, ev(f)paLvoL(Ta Talav fxdvTi<;, dei tl ^epoiij dyaOov 
 
 Ota 8' dvTeWoio-a XevcrcreL Xenrov 'Aw? Karrvov 
 
 j/e(f)ea tlktelv )(pv(T0(f)eyy7],
 
 286 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 She dances on the plain, 
 As if her listening ear 
 Caught from afar a blithe inviting strain. 
 She courts the Future. Can he aught deny- 
 To the simplicity of her bespeaking eye ? 
 Between them Fays are on the wing, 
 And ever through the sky 
 To her the pledges of his favour bring. 
 She courts the Future, till successive Hours 
 In distant light array'd 
 
 Look forth from arches opened through the shade 
 That still is rolling round his misty bowers.
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 287 
 
 Tolov e^ecTT iv TreStoto Tidat? 6p^y.a XevcrcreLv 'EXttiSos eV. B' 
 
 (jocnrep ap' ous 7rape)(0Lcr el ^Boyyov avXoiv ev(f)pova TrjXe iroBev 
 
 e^aKovoi, (fyathpovov cT'uvdrjixa ■^opocTTaaia';. 
 
 a 8' i(f)6SoL^ p^vdcTT^ipa cratVet p,aX6aKai(TLV tov rrpocnovTa 
 'Xpopop- 
 
 TTois 8' dp\ dSoXoLCTL TTaprjyopCais oaawv /xaXa^^ets, 
 
 ovK av avTa TrdvTa 80117 Keivo<; e/cwf; 
 
 Kol Trap' akXdkovs StaTre/xTTO/xei^ot <^povTihcov Trrai/a? {jnovpyovs 
 
 ov Tt Kafjivoicr . 'EXTTtot 8 at8e X.povov arp. e 
 
 Tov 7rpocrep7rovTO<; ndpa avjx/BoXa ncoTcoPTaL (fyepoicrai mcrTa 
 (^iXo(j)po(Tvva^' 
 
 u}he St) xjjv^dv depaTrevjxacri Kr]Xadel<; dviKdroi^ yXu/cetas 
 
 'EXttiSos ipxofjievdv 6 ^eya? KiXaSov^o? ojpdv 
 
 KXddpa TeXo<s ^aXdarai ttvkvov tpcjyov KaTa^ioi, 
 
 hoiyidTOiv 09 vvKTcXajxTTCop ol Kvavavyea'i dp.(^L TruXa? 
 
 Kan SivetTat' to [xeXXov 8' e/c/caXvi//at9, CTKidv 
 
 dvpiSas 0)9 K:otXa9 SioCycov,
 
 288 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 One prankt with flowers 
 
 Her notice greets, 
 
 And seems to sip 
 
 With rubied Hp 
 
 A chahce full of sweets. 
 
 The next with gleaming torch displays 
 
 Fair blissful scenes — yet most attracts the gaze 
 
 By signs that fill the mind with more than vision meets. 
 
 Each is welcomed as it lingers 
 
 With her kissed and beckoning fingers. 
 
 If one should haply rise 
 
 In less alluring guise, 
 
 Hope does but mark all cheerily the while 
 
 Another close behind peep o'er it with a smile. 
 
 Yet ah ! with gloomiest tidings on his brow, 
 
 A giant wizard of the mountains, now 
 
 Pale Terror came ; and, while with cowering mien 
 
 A spell-bound troop were round him seen,
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 289 
 
 Tr]\€(f)auTov (f)(x)^ eTTLecraaixevav avT. e' 
 
 hel^ev oipav i^ erepa? erepav, op^vas TrpoKv-rrroicrav irepifiaWo- 
 
 d ixev av6a)v koctijlov e^oLcra Trpiirei, yeikei S' dcfyap (fyoLVLKo/BoLTTTO) 
 
 ixecrrov iv(f)po(Tvva<i Trpocrayei Tracra? akeiaov 
 
 a 8e T6iTov<i fxdKapa<i 7rpo<; Xa/x7raS' dyXadv So/cet 
 
 (fyaivefxev tovt avTO [xePTOL rrXela-TOP eincrKOTTiovri {xekei, 
 
 (rdfjiacnv yap jxvaTLKols [Mell^ou tl crrjixaivefJLev 
 
 (f)pa(rlv e^et Oavfi tj /car' oxjiLv. 
 
 TOLV S' €Kd(TTav, TTpiv TTapekiqkvOevaL, reivoLcra X^^P cicrTra^eraf 
 
 CTT. e 
 
 el he TLS av CTTvyepdv Set^ete fxdWop cr)(rjiJi inLTeXkofieva, 
 ras 8' d(j)povTL(TTel jxep 'EXtti?, to, S' dp" eTncnrofjieva 
 aSerat cos crKvdpdq TrpoKVTTTeL Srjdev evopvL<; yekdoicr OTTiuev. 
 ire^piK' a^ppevrd tl<; dyye\eo)v ^Xwpos Trpocrcjirov 
 viorareTai, irTddcrovT dyojv (f)LXTpoL<i a(^t\otcrt Xo^ov, 
 BeanoTaq 7ra/>t^ap/xaKo?, ovpeai valov 7re\(op aKpoLcn Aet/xos* 
 
 J. T. 19
 
 2 go TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 His lips essayed dark mysteries to unfold. 
 
 But soon those quivering lips were locked, 
 
 And his glazed eye-balls, in distortion roll'd, 
 
 Betokened things too dread for speech 
 
 Or shuddering thought to reach. 
 
 The earth beneath him rocked, 
 
 When mixed with thunder and the voice of waves 
 
 From black unfathomed caves 
 
 Was heard a dreary cry, 
 
 That echoing seemed in other worlds to die. 
 
 Then silence reigned, but such as threw 
 
 On Expectation's front a ghastlier hue ; 
 
 For, with a scowl of grim delight, 
 
 He told that from the realms of night 
 
 Unearthly shapes were crowding into sight. 
 
 When thus the magic work more fearful grew, 
 
 A wilder eagerness his votaries thrilled, 
 
 And, at each stir or sound 
 
 Above below around, 
 
 Shrinking they turned, or fell upon the ground,
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 291 
 
 Xue /cXatSa? (tkotlcov inetov crTp. r' 
 
 ^eikeoiv 8' d(f)V(o Tpoixepatv Kpvo^ avhav Tra^' d(f>o)vov, Xvcrcra 
 
 S' eXLcraofxeva^ 
 ofjLfjiaTcov arpe^Xolcr ejxdpaive Kopa^, apprjTa (j'qixaivoiv rapay/xos 
 Tap^aXecorepd t ^ Kar €pevv(t)VTa<s i/orjaai' 
 ^6o)v Se craXeuerat, ev ^popTol'; re koI kXvScdvlcov 
 l3v(Tcr60eu (j)0)val<Tti' dvrpoiv opwixivaicTL KeKaive^doiv 
 [XLyvvTat \vypd rt? 6[X(f)d, rrjXe 8' d^olcra yds 
 [MedopioLS dcTTpoiv re Xijyei. 
 
 elra cnyd ixkv fBpojxov eK8e^eTat, dvr. r' 
 
 rots Se KaX irpiv TrpoaSoKLixoLcn KaKov ^patVet napeCas 8et/xart 
 
 ■)(\(OpOT€p(0' 
 
 ^rjcri yap KevOp.Sivo'i air ivvv^iov jxoptpds dvaOpoiCTKeiv a(f>pa(r- 
 
 T0V9, 
 
 (TKvOpd hpaKels eVt^at/seVa/co?' heLudv 8' oaa> Kev 
 
 fidXXou LcocT iiraoihav p^a^aval Tekecr(^6poL, 
 
 •npocTTToXoiv Ovid'i TocrovTO) ixdkXop ojJidyvpLS olcTTpeeTat' 
 
 el Se KiveiTai ijfocf^os rts yddev etr' ovpavS, 
 
 ro8e r/aeVa^'TC? TTpoQ-rpeirovTai' 
 
 19 — 2
 
 292 TRA NSL A TIONS. 
 
 Nor raised their heads till his behest was known ; 
 
 For he could keep suspended, as he willed, 
 
 Their sense and breathing ; by his look alone 
 
 Could give them winged speed, or freeze them into stone. 
 
 But hence, ye tremblers, hence away, 
 Flitting as shadows at the glance of day ! 
 For who are these, that, next beheld in motion, 
 Come like the fresh resistless tide of ocean ? 
 
 'Tis Intellect, aroused as from a trance. 
 
 Intent by Nature's clue 
 
 To wind through labyrinths, where at each advance 
 
 Her unveiled secrets meet the courting view. 
 
 'Tis young Disdain, with smile half turned 
 On bounds his vaulting feet have spurned. 
 
 'Tis Strength that lifts his rampant form. 
 As he could ride and curb the storm.
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 293 
 
 ot Se /cat TTLTTTovTL ^a/aatTTeTee?, Trplv S' ov/c iTraCpovTai Koipa 
 
 CTT. r 
 
 77/011/ Ke ixdOoiCTLv e^eT/xo.? SecrTioTov Ketz^o? yap e^et t' idekoiv 
 
 iraaiv avroig a[XTTPoa<; i/zv^^a? re jxevo? TreSacrat, 
 
 /cat Sofxev, ifx^Xe^ais jxovov, rot? /aci^ Spofxoju K(xpTO<i [liy 
 deXXoTToSojv, 
 
 TOD5 o av /c/3voet9 oa/xacrat Kiuivov^. oXK epper tjor], 
 
 <t>(0(r(j)6pov Te\\ovTO<s etSwX' 019, Tpofxepoi' 
 
 Tt9 yap opfxaTav crToX.09, oiKeavov 7rpocrcf)€pr]^ ayvalcn pL7ra1<; ; 
 
 <f>afxl XevcrcreLU, /cw/xaros ws jBadeo? arp. ^' 
 
 i^eyepdeLcrav, ^o<j)iav <J>v<Te&;9 (ttl/Bou i$r)yovfxei'a<; fxacTTeveixev 
 eKTrepdav 
 
 (TVfjLTrXoKCJV 6p(f)uaLa TrXavrjiJiaO' ohoiv, €pd' a>9 TrpojSaLvei fxaWou 
 
 atet 
 
 Se/3/cerat e/c^ai^ea? rt§ ecrcu Te6ixov<; 'Amy/ca9' 
 Ojxjxa o TiTep(f)po(Tvvav Xevcrcroj TpenoLcrav iyyeXdv 
 XaK7TaTrjTov<; aix(j)i ^a^/xov9 wi^ vnepea^eO^ dvaXXopiiva- 
 opdiav o alpei %$evo<; pa>ixau (j)vd<;, 0)9 Xa^pdv 
 aroixioL uojixdcrov OveXXdv.
 
 2 94 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 'Tis Independence, on a rocky height, 
 Free as the tameless eagle poised for flight. 
 
 'Tis Valour that has met the eyes 
 
 Of spirit-stirring Enterprise, 
 
 And watches for the prompted aim 
 
 At which to rush through flood and flame. 
 
 Yet these are but a herald band : 
 
 The crested Chieftain is himself at hand ; 
 
 These shall but wait 
 
 On his heroic state, 
 
 And act at his command. 
 
 He comes, Ambition comes ; his way prepare : 
 
 Let banners wave in air. 
 
 And loud-voiced trumpets his approach declare.
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 295 
 
 vxjjLmjpyoLS S' iu cTKOTTeXoLCTL Trpenei dvr. ^' 
 
 TTOLora Marrjp avTovoixov ju.eyaXdv//i;^os l^oa<;, w? atero? iKTavvcraL^ 
 Tipcrov dSjxrjf; lao(f)6pov TTTepvyoiv ^VKaphia 8' iyyv<s TToXetrat, 
 1«\[j.av iyepatvoov TTOTihep^O^lcr di^TtTT/owpo?' 
 ws Se StauXoSpdjU-09 fiaX^l^d rt9 TrpocrLcrraTai, 
 Trpu hpafxeiv T'r)pa)v djatXXa? crd/xa Trpos dv^po^ dycovoderov, 
 (Doe7rpo<; loA/xa? fxevet (rap, ao , ottw? ayptav 
 St' <Xa TTv/a r' dirXaTov oppa. 
 
 dWa pdu avTai ye npoTTopTTOL ioLcrai ^poipiat^ovTai povov 
 
 CTT. ^ 
 
 vvv ^TrdpeaTLV dvaaar avrd, Kopai^ arrepp l7nro\6(f)Ov KopvOos 
 
 dp(^iDl(r' avTai Se Kei,va<; aepvoTarav KecfyaXdv 
 
 dp(f)L7r\ij(TOLor' , coKa SecnroCvaq Travdp^ov pijpacTL TreiOopevaL' 
 
 \oXp , < yevireipa @ed (^iXoTipoiv X^^P' deOXcou, 
 
 Tol o oov Xevpdv irpoKOTrToiev TrpoSpopot, 
 
 arapdroiih^ iv TTop^vpeaicri. ^XtSats /cat Topco adXTTLyyo<; d;(w
 
 296 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 He comes, for Glory hath before him raised 
 
 Her shield with godlike deeds emblazed. 
 
 He comes, he comes : for purposes sublime 
 
 Dilate his soul ; and his exulting eye 
 
 Beams like a sun, that in the vernal prime 
 
 With golden promise travels up the sky. 
 
 Onward looking, far and high, 
 
 While before his champion pride 
 
 Vallies rise and hills subside, 
 
 His mighty thoughts, too swift for lagging Time, 
 
 Through countless triumphs run ; 
 
 Each deed conceived appears already done, 
 
 Foes are vanquished, fields are won. 
 
 E'en now, wath wreaths immortal crown'd, 
 
 He marches to the sound 
 
 Of gratulating lyres. 
 
 And earth's applauding shout his generous bosom t"es
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 297 
 
 tXv TrpoKr)pv(TcroL€V eTrep^oixevav. arp. 7] 
 
 ep^^erai' to, yap (fnXotppojv dj/eSet^' EvkXci' eTraipoLcr acnriha 
 haihakeav, 
 
 ipyfxaTcov 7rot/ctA./i,acrt Xa/airojiteVav OeLOLa-LU' vxprjXa^ TreXa^et 
 
 iv TTpaTTiZecrori Tpe(f)OLcr iTTLVOLa<;, o/x/xa r' avyat? 
 
 etKcXo? 'AeXtou ^pvaaixirvKOiv fier iXiriBcov 
 
 aWep dfJL^aivovTo^s. epnei TTpoarKOTrioicra to T7)\€(f}ave<s, 
 
 ev^erat S' vxjjrjXocfypojv tt/jo? ttolvO' a/xtXXw/xeVa 
 
 ^^a/AciX' opcLvol^ T i^Lcraxreuv, 
 
 TOiv T opeivoiv aKpa ^ajact^e ^aXeXv dvr. rj 
 
 ra Se c^v^'^'ota^' fxeyaXoirpeTrecov opjxai <^6dvoicrLv ^djxa ^povov 
 ^pahvTTOvv, 
 
 pAjpidv viKa^opidv SoKeoicrai necpaTa l,aX(oT d(f)2^6aL. 
 
 o/3ai^ ya/) ocr av voerj, tclo ovap /cat oi) oeopaKev 
 
 Bvcr[Jiev€cov yiyovev Kpecrcroiv, /xa^atcrt r iv Sopo<; 
 
 d^C elpyacrrai Tponaiov Zrjv6<sy v<^' dSvXoycov re Xvpdv 
 
 (f)aLveTai crrel^eiv, Keap yevvalov €V(/>a/Aiat9 
 
 (jiXeyofxeva TrXeLCTTopi^poTOLa-iv.
 
 298 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 He comes, he comes : his way prepare, 
 
 Let banners wave in air, 
 
 And loud-voiced trumpets his approach declare. 
 
 All ruder sounds, o Youth, were hushed awhile, 
 
 Nor had Ambition run his purposed race, 
 
 When Love at last appeared to claim thy smile. 
 
 And at thy side obtain the dearest place. 
 
 Leaving a diviner scene. 
 
 Where her dwelling erst had been, 
 
 By Zephyrs wafted in a pearly car, 
 
 To this sublunar element 
 
 Her gliding course she bent. 
 
 And came through vernal mists, emerging like a star. 
 
 But first, o Youth, that she might be 
 Duly trained for earth and thee, 
 On ambrosia Love was fed 
 In Fancy's charmed bowers. 
 Where his wand her footsteps led 
 Through mazes gemmed with flowers : 
 Making earth to her appear 
 Like a higher kindred sphere.
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 299 
 
 ep)(eTaL' \evp6v riv It , cu rrpohpoyioi, raS' aixep(i)aovTe<s ari^ov 
 
 eV. Tj 
 
 et', di/aSet^are fxev aajxeia, crakTriyyoiv 8' a(f>e$^ vi//t /3odv. 
 
 akXa fxav dparjv t€0)^, "YL/Sa, KcA-aSos (j)6LPvdef 
 
 TTpXv yap eKe'ivav repjxa Kct/xi/zat npoaSoKaTov KvSaXifxoLO hp6p.ov, 
 
 fjLva(TTrjp i7n(f)aLveTaL vcrraros evvota? Epoi? era?, 
 
 ^tXrards ^' et? 817 Teolcnv (TTa(r6p,evo<s 
 
 Trap 6p6voL<;' 09 OeioTepav TTpoXnroiv roiv Trdpoid^ aiy\av 
 eiTavXoiv 
 
 es irXa/cas ya? rjkOev virovpavLOv^, a-rp. 6' 
 
 pLp(f>a XevKOvs crvv ^e(f)'upoL(TLP 6-^ov<i vypd^ Slcokoju aWepo<; i^ 
 dhvTwv, 
 
 KoX Ziekdoiv elapLpd^ vecfyeXa^ i^eXafxxf/ 0109 rt? darTrjp. 
 
 aW Iv Epoi^ Trpop.dOoL ^6ov\ riv 6\ "HjSa, orvvelvai, 
 
 ^avTacria^i ivl Kdiroi'^ /BoaKer eiSap dp/BpoTOv, 
 
 a re vlv BeXyoLcra pd/3S(o ttolklXov dvdecnv dye TrXdvov, 
 
 yala 8' avrco ^eio? -^817 ^(opo<; cS? crvuTp6<f)cov 
 
 irape^ dvdpvaatv peXddpcop.
 
 300 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 Yet Pity then, benignly meek, 
 
 With faltering voice and moistened cheek, 
 
 To Love revealed, that Pain and Woe 
 
 Had found a place below. 
 
 And as she ceased, from grove and distant rill 
 
 The sound was borne of Nature's plaint, 
 
 Melancholy, low and faint, 
 
 A whisper to the heart, when all around was still. 
 
 Love, scarcely breathing, bent her head 
 
 And listened till her colour fled ; 
 
 But, as it mantling came again, 
 
 Her eyes all eloquent expressed 
 
 An answer to the mournful strain : 
 
 For they proclaimed that in her bosom dwelt 
 
 Softness ineffable, a power and will 
 
 To conquer Force, the fiercest Rage to melt. 
 
 To find a balm for life's severest 111, 
 
 And lull the Sorrows of the earth to rest.
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 301 
 
 ^ci S' oKvr]poi<^ (fideyixacTL r -qiTio^poiv avT. 6' 
 
 OXkto^, o^lv t ovk ahiavTo<i' dXddeiav (jipdcroi ctol Tracrciv' 
 eTTV^Oovioiv 
 
 L(T0L Avnav /cat /3apv0vixov 'Auiav avy KaToiKKrOelcrav avXals. 
 
 Tav6' 6 jxkv elire' varrdv 8' dtro Trjkovpcov re Kpavdv 
 
 dvTiayei p^eydXa MaTr)p dayjix oSvpjxaTa, 
 
 rrevdifjLov (fxovdev auSas oIottoXols ^iOvpicrfJia ^poTols' 
 
 ws XLTroxljv)(coj/ KaTa(f)r)<; ravT aKovoiv Epco's 
 
 dnaXov i^dXXa^e )(poLd<; 
 
 dvdos' w9 8' avT rjXvOe irop^vpeov, <^at8pw7ro9 ocbdaXfiwv creXas 
 
 eV. 6' 
 
 dyyeXiaicri ySapetat? dpTecftXe^ev SeL^e yap iv TrpaTricnv 
 
 Tola, vojxcou KrjXa nafXTreiOov'? ayavo(f)pocrvva<i 
 
 (US Kev eXelv v^piv fiiaiav deXKxpa r 6pyd<; evpejxeu ifxiiaueo? 
 
 KovcpicrixaTa r aluoTardu oSwdv Ouarols irapacr^eLV, 
 
 Kol KaT€Vvdi,eLV jxaXaKa X^P'' X^^t^^^^ SvaKvpavTOu ara?.
 
 302 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 Thus Pity's influence o'er her soul 
 
 Heightened Fancy's rich control. 
 
 Love from Pity learnt the sigh 
 
 That saddens, but endears ; 
 
 From Fancy learnt the rapture high, 
 
 That trembles into tears. 
 
 Each o'er her slumbers fondly bent, 
 
 And both their inspiration lent, 
 
 Like rainbow tints in dewy lustre blent, 
 
 As in a flowery cave she slept. 
 
 Where bees, that had from Eden strayed, 
 
 Its native honey to her lips conveyed, 
 
 And by the murmuring which they kept 
 
 About her golden hair. 
 
 Lured from the sky such visions fair. 
 
 As Eden knew when Innocence was there.
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 303 
 
 TOtaS' OiWw jxaXkop eTTKnroixevo^ arp. c 
 
 [xaWov av /cat ^ai^racrtas VTroOaKai^ TravTOcre^voi'; Krjp irape- 
 fBaWev "Epw?* 
 
 Trpo'i yot'P Olktov tovt cXa)^ev, dTova^av \v7rp0u ixku IjxepTou 
 he owpov, 
 
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 ^avraaia 8' ajxa (TvvdLa(T(OTr)<; 7rpoaireXd^(op 
 
 LKET in oX^ohoTeipas fos jSeySa/c^tw/AeVos 
 
 (fypovTiBov 6pfxd<;, poaiaiv yetroi^a? evjxevecnv haKpvoiv. 
 
 KOLvd yap ^pitpvros a/x(^w TqpiovTe^ Xe^o^i 
 
 ^dpLTa^ ivCTTdtpVTL K0Lud<5, 
 
 euS/jocous aKTlvas direp [Xiydhas dvr. c 
 
 "ipiSos" Kvaxraei Se pLV^olcTLv "F^poiii crTretou? eA-i/crotg dvdecri 
 
 KpVTTTOJJieVOV, 
 
 ^etXe' l(o Teyyofxeuo^ yXvKepd) irXayKTav an OvXvfxnov jxeXiacrdv 
 
 at 6' ore yieiXL)(6(j>(jivov vnepTeivovri /Sofi/Bou, 
 
 ^vcroKO/xous nepl ^aiTa<; crag, Ep&js, norcoiievai, 
 
 0e(TKeX(t)v TotovSe fjLopcfydi' ovpavoOev Kardyovn ^opov 
 
 oiov iv yatas ueoprov KajXLdvTov crTa6iJiol<; 
 
 ecrthev 'Ayueia crvvavXos.
 
 304 TRANS LA TIONS. 
 
 Love woke, and moving with impassioned grace, 
 Attempered to the music of her thought, 
 She looked as one that trod the Hquid air ; 
 While, from some hovering angel presence caught, 
 Reflected radiance blushed upon her face. 
 Yet, as a lily droops with moisture fraught, 
 Soon by her own rapt consciousness opprest 
 At Pity's side she knelt with heaving breast, 
 And seemed to ask, in gentle grief. 
 If sweet illusion mocked her fond belief. 
 
 But Fancy near, in triumph mute, 
 
 Still round her waved his wings. 
 
 For though she courted Pity's lute, 
 
 And bade it speak of tears, 
 
 Of sighs and tender fears, 
 
 Yet would she stoop to kiss the strings. 
 
 As in their silver tone 
 
 The Spirit of her dream 
 
 Had told of bliss alone. 
 
 Her brow she raised 
 
 And upward gazed, 
 
 As if her soul on one exhaustless theme 
 
 Would fain for ever dwell :
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 305 
 
 i^eyepOr), (ppoPTLcrL t e/x/xeXeVtt' pvdjxov crvvapixot^mv Troholv 
 
 5 / 
 
 €7r. t 
 
 Oovpos "Fjpo)^ eSo/cet fiacveLV i(f) vypa<; aWepo<;' w? Se tlvo<; 
 
 BaifjLovcjv acr(rovTO<; iyyv<; picjiOkv oltto Trrepvycov 
 
 ^ws poSoxpovv ecrrtXyS' €77' oxpei' Xeipcov 8' ofji/SpOLaL ^apvvo- 
 
 0)9 Kpad^ v(f)L€i, fxekeSijfjLacrLV dppif]TOL<; Sa/xacr^ets 
 
 Kajxxfjeu acnraipcov Trap' Olktco yovvax 'Eyow?, 
 
 a>S ipa}TO)v, dpa raXa? hoKewv ecrXa 7rpocr\ev(j(Teiv BoXovfxai; 
 
 aW ai^auSo? <I>avTacrta irTepvyas arp. la' 
 
 cty^t Siveveo'/cev dyaWofjLeva- rdv p.kv yap Olktov craivev Epcos 
 KiOdpav, 
 
 d^LOiv VLV BaKpvoev tl Opoeiv dcrixa crrei^ay/Aotg avv iroOeLuols' 
 
 TrpocTKVviaiv Se (f)i\ij[jLa0' oix(i)<^ efx/SaXke ^opoat?, 
 
 atcnrep ouetpoiroXwv XcTrras viral jueA-ojotas 
 
 aXXo fxrjhev TrXrjv Tvyav evBaLjxov'' dv(o he /^Xeircov (Tvveyji)^; 
 
 ^aived^ 0)5 evOova-idtjcov tv ixekrjfi d/x^eVet^', 
 
 TO 8' inrecrrjiJiaivev, dhel 
 
 J. T. -"^
 
 3o6 TRANSLATIONS. 
 
 Then smiled, as bidding mortal tongues despair 
 
 That wondrous theme's entrancing power to tell ; 
 
 And still would sighs pursued by smiles declare 
 
 She felt a pain that spurned relief, and bliss too sweet to bear. 
 
 Thus taught to smile and sigh, 
 Love now to Youth drew nigh. 
 The conscious heavens o'er her head 
 Their blandest influence shed ; 
 And on the earth her very sight 
 Had all things waked to soft delight. 
 
 The Elements with mutual greeting 
 
 Gave sign that Love and Youth were meeting. 
 
 The balmy Air, with humming sound 
 
 And sun-kissed pinions quivering o'er the ground. 
 
 Calls verdure, fragrance, life and bloom around. 
 
 Smoothly the forests now 
 
 Their shaggy honours bow ; 
 
 And up from lowly nests in mead or glen 
 
 Ambitious warblers rise,
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 307 
 
 /xetStacrats o[i\kajTi, Oeiorepaq avr. la 
 
 (f)poi^TLcrLv 0avixa(TTOTepa<; r eTraotSas afxcfajBdWeLv -q Kara 
 6vajoyevel<; eveiTeLv 
 
 /cat arevat^oiv iv he [xepet yekdcov d\yo<; t ip^dwaiv tl navTos 
 
 Kpecrcrop aKov<; o^iov re ^apa<; oi(TTpr]p^ d^eprov. 
 
 Tola yeXcDTOs e^cov (rTepyrjOpa kol (TTevayixaTcov 
 
 iyyvs rjkO' "RjSa^ ^Epws- rots S17 crvve^aipe crvvaTTTOixeuoLS 
 
 ovpavos T ev(j>pov TTOTicTTdt^oiv avoiOev ydpos, 
 
 yd<s 6* OLTrdcra^s cfivX' lavOrj 
 
 elcrdna^ a»s etS'* dvefxcov Be peedpcov t dvTi^covoi Kk-Qoove'; 
 
 eV. LCL 
 
 (Tv^vyiav eher^ovO* "HySa? ^Epwros r'- ev Se ^tXos Ze(f)vpo<s, 
 17X10/3X17x019 hiaidvaaoiv TTTepvyecrcrL Trehov, 
 dhvTTvoov ^op.^el Tiv OL\ov, Tov KeXevovTos ^Xoepotcri ^pvei 
 /SXaaT-qfiacTL TTavTa)(69ev y6ovo<i evocrpuOLO Xeipcov. 
 aorv)(a 8' 17817 Sacreias BevBpa Kopaq 
 
 vevei' opviOeg Se Xe^wi^ ^dapakd^ €^€pr]p(oaavTe<; evva<; 
 
 20 — 2
 
 3o8 TRANSLA TIONS. 
 
 That task with twinkHng plumes the dazzled ken, 
 
 Or lost in light convey earth's gladness to the skies. 
 
 Voices meanwhile from other spheres, 
 
 Saluting mortal ears, 
 
 With chime of song from land and ocean sent 
 
 Mingled their melting ravishment ; 
 
 And this the lay, to mount and vale and shore 
 
 That each enamoured wind in tuneful concert bore : 
 
 ' Turn, hither turn thine eyes, o Youth, 
 Love's choice ordained to be ; 
 And haste to learn the blissful truth, 
 That Love was formed for thee. 
 Take her, that Love in thee may find 
 All that is imaged in her mind ;
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 309 
 
 Kaprrtjuot? Iv TrCcrea-iv etre vaTrat? crrp. i^' 
 
 v^ocr iKdpaxTKovTL, (fnXojSol aixLXXaryjpe';, ol [xev tcov imSepKo- 
 fxevcjv 
 
 oixfiar eKTrXijao-ovTes apia^avia, rots aloko^oicriv Trrepoicriv, 
 
 ol S'' ai<^aviiC,6p.evoi TrepikapiiTOKTav Kar aiy\av 
 
 TT/oo? Ata ra? eVt ya ^d^iv (ftepovn ya.pixova<i. 
 
 iv Se ToJS' 6jJL(f)al ^poTeioL<; (halv vnepd' eTrLULaaofiGvaL 
 
 ■)(epa6dev t ay^oi<i doiSas irovToOev t ovpcoL? 
 
 TaKepa 6vp.ov OekKTp eyncryov 
 
 ravTa o aKrats r ayKeai r rjOe vairai^ avr. tp 
 
 Ijxepa) levKToiv o-Ti^e? i^icjiepov irvoiav ^vvavXof Bevp vB , 
 "EpcoTL Sdfxap 
 
 jxoLpoKpoivTcov c/c TeXeToiv TTpocriolcr ^H^a* jxeyav o L(r6 evuv? 
 oX^ov 
 
 arol yap "Epcoq Sta Travros ofxiXdacop TriipvKev. 
 
 dXXd Se^ou TOP "EpcoT rjSr) ^lXov avvdopov, 
 
 0)9 6 jLtev Twv croiv deaT'r]<; yiyvop.evo';, ^acriXeia, rpoTroiv 
 
 irdvd^ OCT ivvoia TrXctcrats Ip^eprd ttov rvyxdvei 
 
 Tocra TTapovT epyoicriv evpr),
 
 T, I o TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 3 
 
 Take her, that Love to thee may give 
 What most shall make it life to live. 
 
 No sweeter prize can earth provide 
 
 To crown thy guardian care : 
 
 O take her as a Queen and Bride, 
 
 Thy golden Reign to share.' 
 
 R. Kennedy.
 
 THE REIGN OF YOUTH. 311 
 
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 e^o^ov duTiXajScbv l^cods doirov. ixr]KeT eTretyo/xeva 
 
 TTopaiov drjpa y\vKiov KTrjfxa Kar alav eXetv 
 
 TovBe yap el dtjaei TrpofxdOeLav, vofXL^' evafxepias Trareeiv 
 
 vxfjyjXoTaTav Kopvcjidv. dye StJ, XeKTpoJV re Se^at 
 
 TovBe KOLVciivov dpovoiv 6^ , "H)8a, ndpeSpov, 
 
 )(pvo'eov ■)(pvaoa'Te(f)dvoLO reds ^vinieracr^aovTa rt/tas.
 
 3 r 2 TRA NSLA TIONS. 
 
 To Mary. 
 
 Early wert thou taken, Mary, 
 In thy fair, thy glorious prime, 
 
 Ere the bees had ceased to murmur 
 Mid the umbrage of the lime. 
 
 Buds were blowing : waters flowing : 
 Birds were singing on the tree ; 
 
 Everything was bright and glowing, 
 When the Angels came for thee. 
 
 Death had laid aside his terrors, 
 And he found thee calm and mild, 
 
 Lying in thy robe of whiteness. 
 Like a pure, a stainless child. 
 
 Hardly had the mountain violet 
 Spread its blossom on the sod. 
 
 Ere they laid the earth above thee, 
 And thy spirit rose to God.
 
 TO MARY. 313 
 
 Sulpicia, ante diem memini te linquere terras, 
 
 vere simul fueras conspicienda tuo. 
 ver erat hie etiam, nee, te fugiente, per umbras 
 
 desierat tiliae stridere murmur apum. 
 germina florebant : rivus trepidabat eundo : 
 
 arboris in ramo dulee eanebat avis, 
 nil erat aprieo quod non rideret amietu, 
 
 quom te siderei transtulit ala ehori. 
 Mors aderat ; non ilia minis, ut saepe, verenda, 
 
 nee veritae similis tu, neque tristis eras, 
 sindone sie nivea plaeide eomposta iaeebas, 
 
 laeteola in cunis qualis alumna iacet. 
 needum etiam violae, montanum culmen amantes, 
 
 vestierant gemma proveniente solum, 
 quom pia deposuit te cespite turba premendam, 
 
 coepistique Deo iam propiore frui.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 I. A UTHORS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Aldrich, James .... ^ Her sufferings ended with the day' . . 152 
 
 Arnold, Matthew . . . Mycerinus 114 
 
 The Progress of Poesy 140 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher . The Two Noble Kinsmen, v. i . . . . 102 
 
 Browning Abt Vogler 2 
 
 Byron, Lord Darkness 62 
 
 Lines ofi an Early Death 86 
 
 Prom ' The Giaour ' 172 
 
 The Dream 176 
 
 Campbell The Last Man 126 
 
 Clark, W. G., and others An Experiment in Polyglot Russian 
 
 Scandal 237 
 
 Constable Diaphenia 118 
 
 Eliot, George From ^ The Spanish Gypsy' 42
 
 3 1 6 INDEX OF A UTHORS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Gray From ^ The Progress of Poesy^ .... 88 
 
 Houghton, Lord .... * They seem'd to those who saw them meef 38 
 
 Keats ^ In a drear-nighted December^ .... 58 
 
 Kennedy, R The Reign of Youth 274 
 
 Leopardi // monumento di Dante 240 
 
 Longfellow '^ Many a year is in its grave^ .... 66 
 
 Mac AULA Y Epitaph on a Jacobite 232 
 
 Marshall The Praise of Virtue 106 
 
 Massinger The Virgin Martyr, iv. 3 no 
 
 Milton Song from ^ The Arcades^ 74 
 
 Paradise Lost, \. 105 — 124 136 
 
 Hyjnn on the Morning of Chrisfs Nati- 
 vity 180 
 
 Prior ^ The merchatit, to conceal his treasure' . 78 
 
 Shakespeare Henry IV. Part /. 1. 3 30 
 
 Timon of Athens, iv. 3 50 
 
 Julius Ccesar, 11. i 70 
 
 King John, iv. i 92 
 
 Hamlet, in. 3 122 
 
 Romeo atid Juliet, v. 3 154 
 
 Twelfth Night, 11. 4 164 
 
 Shelley From '■Prometheus Unbound' .... 82
 
 INDEX OF AUTHORS. 317 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Swinburne From ^ Atalanta in Calydo?t' .... 148 
 
 Tennyson Tithonus 16 
 
 From '■The Princess'': — 
 
 ''Home they brought her warrior dead'' 26 
 
 '■Tears, idle tears '' 54 
 
 From '■In Memoriam^ : — 
 
 Stanza LXiii 46 
 
 Stanza lxxxviii 158 
 
 The Dying Swan 34 
 
 Iphigenia 98 
 
 Frojn '■ Enoch Ar den'' 132 
 
 The Coming of Arthur 144 
 
 From '■Guinevere'' 168 
 
 Waller To a Lady's Girdle 96 
 
 Wordsworth Ode. Intimations of Immortality from 
 
 Recollections of Early Childhood . . 208
 
 ^.i8 INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 
 
 3 
 
 11. FIRST LINES. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 A change came o'er the spirit of my dream 176 
 
 A pearly dew-drop see some flowers adorn 86 
 
 All these he saw, but what he fain had seen 132 
 
 All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom 126 
 
 And the fringe Of that great breaker .144 
 
 Awake, Aeolian Lyre, awake ! 88 
 
 Ay, but I know 164 
 
 But she, with sick and scornful look averse 98 
 
 But thou, son, be not filled with evil dreams 148 
 
 Diaphenia like the daffadoii>ndilly 118 
 
 Dost thou look back on what hath been 46 
 
 Early wert thou taken, Mary 312 
 
 Have you the heart? When your head did but ache 92 
 
 He gave men speech, and speech created thought 82 
 
 He who hath bent him o'er the dead 172
 
 INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 319 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Her sufferings ended with the day 152 
 
 Home they brought her warrior dead 26 
 
 / had a dream, which was not all a dream 62 
 
 In a drear-nighted December 58 
 
 It must be by his death 70 
 
 // was the winter wild 180 
 
 Many a year is in its grave 66 
 
 Me thy pupil, Youngest follower of thy drum 102 
 
 No artificial Jlies my fancy took 237 
 
 No, no — / will not say it — / will go I 42 
 
 O my love I my wifel 154 
 
 O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven 122 
 
 O'er the smooth enamelPd green 74 
 
 Peace, cousin, say no more ! 30 
 
 PercJih le nostre genti 240 
 
 So spake he, half in anger, half in scorn . . 114 
 
 Tears, idle tears 54
 
 320 INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 That which her slender waist confined 96 
 
 The merchant^ to conceal his treasure . 78 
 
 The sturdy rock, for all its strength 106 
 
 The wild swanks death-hymn took the soul 34 
 
 The woods decay, the woods decay and fall 16 
 
 There was a time when meado7v, grove, and stream 208 
 
 They seemed to those who saw them meet 38 
 
 Thou fool ! That gloriest in having power to ravish no 
 
 To my true king I offered free from stain 232 
 
 What though the field be lost? 136 
 
 When Youth from regions of eternal spring 274 
 
 Witch-elms that counterchange the floor 158 
 
 Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build .... 2 
 
 Yet thanks I must you con 50 
 
 Yet think not that I come to urge thy crimes 168 
 
 Youth rambles on life's arid mount 140
 
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