Along the rocks of Crissa's shore, In holy musings shall we roam, The breathings of a Deity. Guide of my heart! still hovering round, Thy looks, thy words are still my ownI see thee raising from the ground Some laurel, by the winds o'erthrown, And hear thee say, "This humble bough "Was planted for a doom divine; "And, though it droop in languor now, All that the young should feel and know, Fond sharer of my infant joy, Is not thy shade still ling'ring here? When, meeting on the sacred mount, My foot the lightest o'er the green : So still, each look and step to mould, Thy guardian care is round me spread, Arranging every snowy fold, And guiding every mazy tread. And, when I lead the hymning choir, Thy spirit still, unseen and free, Hovers between my lip and lyre, And weds them into harmony. Flow, Plistus, flow, thy murmuring wave Shall never drop its silv'ry tear Upon so pure, so blest a grave, To memory so entirely dear! The laurel, for the common uses of the temple, for adorning the altars and sweeping the pavement, was supplied by a tree near the fountain of Castalia; but upon all important occasions, they sent to Tempé for their laurel. We find, in Pausanias, that this valley supplied the branches, of which LOVE AND MARRIAGE. Eque brevi verbo ferre perenne malum. SECUNDUS, eleg. vii. STILL the question I must parry, Still a wayward truant prove : Where I love, I must not marry ; Where I marry, cannot love. Were she fairest of creation, With the least presuming mind; Wise enough, but never rigid; Were she all this ten times over, Love will never bear enslaving; Summer garments suit him best; Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest. LYING. Che con le lor bugie pajon divini. Mauro d'Arcano. I DO confess, in many a sigh, My lips have breath'd you many a lie; Nay, look not thus, with brow reproving; If half we swear to think and do, And now, my gentle hints to clear, ANACREONTIC. FRIEND of my soul, this goblet sip, "Twill chase that pensive tear; F as he who anticipated Newton in developing the arrangement of the universe. For this opinion of Xenophanes, see Plutarch. de Placit. Philosoph. lib. ii. cap. 13. It is impossible to read this treatise of Plutarch, without alternately admiring the genius, and smiling at the absurdities of the philosophers. 2 The ancients had their lucernæ cubiculariæ or bedchamber lamps, which, as the emperor Galienus said, "nil cras meminere ;" and, with the same commendation of se It does not appear to have been very difficult to become a philosopher amongst the ancients. A moderate store of learning, with a considerable portion of confidence, and just wit enough to produce an occasional apophthegm, seem to have been all the qualifications necessary for the purpose. The principles of moral science were so very imperfectly understood that the founder of a new sect, in forming his ethical code, might consult either fancy or temperament, and adapt it to his own passions and propensities; so that Mahomet, with a little more learning, might have flourished as a philo-crecy, Praxagora addresses her lamp in Aristophanes, Exam. sopher in those days, and would have required but the polish of the schools to become the rival of Aristippus in morality. In the science of nature, too, though some valuable truths were discovered by them, they seemed hardly to know they were truths, or at least were as well satisfied with errors; and Xenophanes, who asserted that the stars were igneous clouds, lighted up every night and extinguished again in the morning, was thought and styled a philosopher, as generally We may judge how fanciful they were, in the use and embellishment of their lamps, from the famous symbolic Lucerna, which we find in the Romanum Museum Mich. Ang. Causei, | p. 127. 3 Hesiod, who tells us in melancholy terms of his father's flight to the wretched village of Ascra. Egy, xai 'Husg. v. 251. 4 Εννυχίαι στείχον, περικαλλέα οσσαν Μίσαι. Theog. v. 10. 5 Και μοι σκηπτρον ίδον, δαφνης εριθηλια οξον. Ιd. ν. 30. |