Not long after the Ars Poetica was published, Mæcenas died at the age of about sixty-five. Almost with his parting breath he commended his friend to the kindly remembrance of Augustus: "Horati Flacci ut mei esto memor - Let Horatius Flaccus be borne in memory as myself." Mæcenas died at midsummer. Before the year ended Horace also passed into the Hereafter. He had neither kith nor kin, and left what modest means he possessed to Augustus Cæsar. He was buried on the slope of the Esquiline, hard by the tomb of his friend Mæcenas. The marble tomb has long since crumbled to dust; but the poet had built for himself a monument which will outlast all marble or bronze.

Where howls loud Aufidus and came
Parched Daunus erst, a horde
Of mystic boors to sway, my name
Shall be a household word.

As one who rose from mean estate,
The first with poet's fire,
Eolic song to modulate
To the Italian lyre.

Then grant, Melpomene, thy son
Thy guerdon proud to wear,
And Delphic laurels, duly won,
Bind thou upon my hair.

- Translation of THEODORE Martin.

ORNE, RICHARD HENRY, or HENGIST, an Eng

lish dramatist, poet and essayist; born at Lon

don, January 1, 1803; died at Margate, March 13, 1884. He was educated at the Royal Military College of Sandhurst, served in the Mexican army during the war between Mexico and Spain, traveled in the United States and Canada, and on his return to England devoted himself to literature. In 1837-38 he published three tragedies: Cosmio de Medici; The Death of Marlowe; and The Death Fetch. These were followed by The Exposition of the False Medium and Barriers Excluding Men of Genius from the Public (1838); Gregory the Seventh, a Tragedy (1840); Judas Iscariot, a Miracle Play (1840); The Life of Napoleon (1841); Orion, an Epic Poem (1843), first sold at a farthing a copy-the author's way of expressing his sense of the low estimation in which epic

poetry was held; A New Spirit of the Age (1844); Ballads and Romances, and The Spirit of Peers and People, a tragic-comedy (1846); The Poor Artist, or Seven Eyesights and One Object (1850); The Dreamer and the Worker, a novel (1851); The Good-Natured Bear, a story for children; and Prometheus the Fire Bringer, a lyrical drama. In 1852 he went to Australia, where he lived for twelve years. After his return to England he published Laura Dibalzo, a tragedy; John the Baptist, or the Valor of a Soul; and The Apocryphal Book of Job's Wife.

THE ASCENT OF ORION.

The cloud expanded darkly o'er the heavens,
Which, like a vault preparing to give back

The heroic dead, yawned with its sacred gloom,

And iron-crowned Night her black breath poured around,
To meet the clouds that from Olympus rolled
Billows of darkness with a dirging roar,

Which by gradations of high harmony

Merged in triumphal strains. Their earnest eyes
Filled with the darkness, and their hands still clasped,
Kneeling the Goddesses' bright rays perceived,
Reflected, glance before them. Mute they rose
With tender consciousness; and, hand in hand,
Turning, they saw slow rising from the sea
The luminous Giant clad in blazing stars,
New-born and trembling from their Maker's breath-
Divine, refulgent effuence of Love.

With pale gold shield, like a translucent Moon
Through which the Morning with ascending cheek
Sheds a soft blush, warming cerulean veins; -
With radiant belt of glory, typical

Of happy change that o'er the zodiac round
Of the world's monstrous phantasies shall come;
And in his hand a sword of peaceful power,
Streaming like a meteor to direct the earth
To victory over life's distress, and show

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The future path whose light runs through death's glooms;

In grandeur, like the birth of Motion, rose

The glorious Giant, tow'rd his place in heaven;
And, while ascending, thus his Spirit sang:

"I came into the world a mortal creature,
Lights flitting upward through my unwrought clay,
Not knowing what they were, nor whither tending,
But of some goodness conscious in my soul.
With earth's rude elements my first endeavor
I made; attained rare mastery, and was proud,

Then felt strange longings in the grassy woodlands,
And hunted shadows under the slant sun.

"Thou Earth, whom I have left, and all my brothers! Followers of Time through steep and thorny ways; Wrestlers with strong calamity, and falling

Forever, as with generations new

Ye carry on the strife-deem it no loss

That in full vigor of his fresh designs,

Your Worker and your Builder hath been called

To rest thus undesired. Though for himself
Too soon, and not enough of labor done
For high desires; sufficient yet to give
The impulse ye are fitted to receive:

More, were a vain ambition. Therefore strive,
My course without its blindness to pursue,

So that ye may through night, as ye behold me,

And also through the day by faithful hope,

Ascend to me; and he who faints half-way,

Gains yet a noble eminence o'er those

Whose feet still plod the earth with hearts o'erdusted. "Then with aspiring love behold Orion!

Not for his need, but for thine own behoof:
He loved thy race, and calls thee to his side.
That substance-bearing Shadow, if with a soul
That to an absolute unadulterate truth

Aspires, and would make active through the world,
He hath resolved to plant for future years.
And thus, in the end, each soul may to itself,
With truth before it as its polar guide,

Become both Time and Nature, whose fixt paths

Are spiral, and when lost will find new stars,
Beyond man's unconceived infinities,

And in the Universal Movement join."

The song ceased, and at once a chorus burst

From all the stars in heaven, which now shone forth!
The moon ascends in her rapt loveliness;

The ocean swells to her forgivingly:

Bright comes the dawn, and Eos hides her faces,
Glowing with tears divine, within the bosom
Of great Poseidon, in his rocking car
Standing erect to gaze upon his son,

Installed midst golden fires, which ever melt
In Eos's breath and beauty; rising still

With nightly brilliance, merging in the dawn-
And circling onward in eternal youth.

L

ORNE, THOMAS HARTWELL, an English clergyman; born at London, October 20, 1780; died there, January 27, 1862. His first work, A Brief View of the Necessity and Truth of the Christian Religion, published in 1800, passed through several editions. His great work, Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, appeared in 1818. The next year he was admitted to the ministry of the Anglican Church. In 1833 he was given a rectorship in London. Forty-five volumes were published by him, on commerce, law, theology, and art. Of some he was editor, of others translator, of others author. Among them are The Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland; The Works of William Hogarth Elucidated by Descriptions, Critical, Moral, and Historical; A Protestant