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# Felicia Hemans in The Literary Gazette 1822/The Hirlas Horn

The Literary Gazette, 5th January 1822
THE HIRLAS HORN.
Air—"Three Hundred Pounds."
Fill high the blue Hirlas,* that shines like the wave †  When sunbeams are bright on the spray of the sea; And bear thou the rich foaming mead to the brave,
 The dragons of battle, the sons of the free! To those from whose spears, in the shock of the fight,
 A beam, like Heaven's lightning,‡ flash'd over the field, To those who came rushing as storms in their might,  Who have shiver'd the helmet, and cloven the shield; The sound of whose strife was like oceans afar,
 When lances were red from the harvest of war.
Fill high the blue Hirlas! O cup bearer, fill!
 For the lords of the field in their festival's hours, And let the mead foam, like the stream of the hill
 That bursts o'er the rock in the pride of its power; Praise, praise to the mighty, fill high the smooth horn  Of honour and mirth,§ for the conflict is o'er; And round let the golden-tipp'd Hirlas be borne,
 To the lion defenders of Gwynedd's fair shore, Who rush'd to the field where the glory was won,
 As eagles that soar from their cliffs to the sun.
Fill higher the Hirlas! forgetting not those
 Who shar'd its bright draught in the days which are fled!
Though cold on their mountains the valiant repose,
 Their lot shall be lovely—renown to the dead!
While harps in the hall of the feast shall be strung,
 While regal Eryri with snow shall crown'd;
So long by the bard shall their battles be sung,
 And the heart of the hero shall burn be at the sound;
The free winds of Maelor* shall swell with their name,  And Owain's rich Hirlas be fill'd to their fame!
* ↑ * Hirlas–from Hir long, and glas blue or azure.
* ↑ † "Fetch the horn, that we may drink together, whose gloss is like the waves of the sea; whose green handles shew the skill of the artist, and are tipp'd with gold."—From the Hirlas of Owain Cyfeiliog.
* ↑ ‡ "Heard ye in Maelor the noise of war, the horrid din of arms, their furious onset, loud as in the battle of Bangor, where fire flashed out of their spears?"—From the same.
* ↑ § "Fill, then, the yellow-lipp'd horn,—badge of honour and mirth."—From the same.
* ↑ * Maelor—part of the counties of Denbigh and Flint, according to the modern division.
# Felicia Hemans in The Literary Gazette 1822

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Felicia Hemans in The Literary Gazette 1822
Compiled By Peter J. Bolton
Contents
| The Hirlas Horn | 5th January |
| The Meeting of the Bards | 1st June |
| Ballad - The Dying Chief | 5th October |
| Ballad - The Cid's Departure into Exile | 12th October |
| England's Dead | 19th October |
| The Sea-Song of Gavran | 30th November |
| The Hall of Cynddylan | 30th November |
| Owain Gwyndwr's War-song | 30th November |
# Felicia Hemans in The Literary Gazette 1822/England's Dead

The Literary Gazette, 19th October 1822
ORIGINAL POETRY. ENGLAND'S DEAD.
Son of the Ocean-isle!
 Where sleep your mighty Dead?
Show me what high and holy pile
 Is rear'd o'er Glory's bed.
Go, Stranger! track the Deep,
 Free, free the white sail spread!
Wave may not foam, nor wild wind sweep,
 Where rest not England's Dead.
On Egypt's burning plains,
 By the Pyramid o'ersway'd,
With fearful power the noon-day reigns,
 And the palm-trees yield no shade:
But let the angry sun
 From Heaven look fiercely red,
Unfelt by those whose fight is done!—
 There slumber England's Dead.
The hurricane hath might
 Along the Indian shore,
And far, by Ganges' banks at night,
 Is heard the tiger's roar:
But let the sound roll on!
 It hath no tone of dread
For those that from their toils are gone!—
 There slumber England's Dead.
Loud rush the torrent floods
 The Western wilds among,
And free, in green Columbia's woods,
 The Hunter's bow is strung:
But let the floods rush on!  Let the arrow's flight be sped!
Why should they reck whose task is done!—
 There slumber England's Dead.
The mountain-storms rise high
 In the snowy Pyrenees,
And toss the pine-boughs through the sky,
 Like rose-leaves on the breeze:
But let the storm rage on!
 Let the forest-wreaths be shed!
For the Roncesvalles' field is won,—
 There slumber England's Dead.
On the frozen Deep's repose
 'Tis a dark and dreadful hour,
When round the ship the ice-fields close,
 To chain her with their power:
But let the ice drift on!  Let the cold blue desert spread! Their course with mast and flag is done—
 There slumber England's Dead.
The Warlike of the Isles!
 The Men of field and wave!
Are not the rocks their funeral piles,
 The seas and shores their grave?
Go, Stranger! track the Deep,
 Free, free the white sail spread!
Wind may not rove, nor billow sweep,
 Where rest not England's Dead.H.
# Felicia Hemans in The Literary Gazette 1822/The Sea-Song of Gavran

The Literary Gazette, 30th November 1822
From A Selection of Welsh Melodies
THE SEA-SONG OF GAVRAN.*
Air-"The live long Night."
Watch ye well! The moon is shrouded
 On her bright throne;
Storms are gathering, stars are clouded,
 Waves make wild moan.
' Tis no night of hearth-fires glowing,
And gay songs and wine-cups flowing;
But of winds, in darkness blowing
 O'er seas unknown!
In the dwellings of our fathers,
 Round the glad blaze,
Now the festive circle gathers,
 With harps and lays;
Now the rush-strewn halls are ringing,
Steps are bounding, bards are singing,
—Ay! the hour to all is bringing
 Peace, joy, or praise!
Save to us, our night-watch keeping,
 Storm-winds to brave,
While the very sea-bird sleeping,
 Rests in its cave! Think of us when hearths are beaming,
Think of us when mead is streaming,
Ye, of whom our souls are dreaming,
 On the dark wave!
# Folk-Lore/Volume 20/Lycanthropie sous la Révolution Française

Lycanthropie sous la Révolution Française.
Le texte ci-dessous me paraît mériter d'être tiré du livre où il est comme enterré. D'abord on y voit les loups jouer le rôle ​de monstres dévorants, encore à la fin du XVIII$^e$ siècle; et, dans le courant du même siècle, la célèbre "Bête du Gevaudan," qui dans l'imagination populaire était devenue un animal fantastique, n'était qu'un énorme loup. Ensuite on trouve ici la croyance à la lycanthropie, et assez vivante pour que quelques personnes simples aient pu supposer l'âme de Carrier incarnée dans ce loup pour son châtiment. Le conventionnel Carrier, envoyé en mission à Nantes en Octobre, 1793, s'y était montré un des tyrans les plus froidement feroces que cette epoque ait produits.
Le texte qui suit est extrait du Dictionnaire néologique des hommes et des choses . . . par le cousin Jacques [Beffroy de Reigny], Paris, an VIII, [1799-1800], T. I., p. 391.
Barillère, Ancien Fermier d'une Métairie appartenant au citoyen Kirouard, propriétaire a Nantes, et située a La Ballerie, village distant de trois lieues de cette ville, eut le chagrin cruel, en messidor dernier, de voir ses enfans périr sous la dent carnassière d'une louve, qui répandait la consternation dans ces contrées.
Il avait deux fllles, l'une de douze ans, l'autre de sept. L'aînée fut horriblement maltraitée par cet animal féroce, qui lui suça le sang et lui mangea les entrailles; la cadette eut la cuisse coupée et les chairs rongées jusqu'à l'os.
L'animal se retira ensuite dans la forêt prochaine, qui est l'une des plus épaisses de la ci-devant Bretagne. La veille, il avait parcouru les Landes de Viais, d'où plusieurs hommes, femmes et enfans, qui gardaient leurs Bestiaux, s'enfuirent précipitamment. Tout ce Canton était plongé dans les justes alarmes. Ceux qui croient dans ce pays au dogme de la métempsycose, pensent que Carrier, pour sa punition, fut condamné par l'Eternel à voir passer son âme dans le corps de cette louve, et que c'est lui qui desole encore le même Departement.
H. Gaidoz.
# Flora's Lexicon/Basil

ASIL. Ocimum Basilicum. Class 14, Didynamia. Order: Gymnospermia. Poverty is sometimes represented. under the figure of an old woman covered with rags, seated near a plant of basil. It is commonly said, that hate has the eyes of a basilisk, because this name has been given to a fabulous animal, which is stated to produce death by a single glance. Basil, however, is a name derived from the Greek, which signifies royal, and indicates the excellence of this fragrant plant.
HATRED.
Dryden
Rowe.
Maturin.
Byron.
# Flora's Lexicon/Bee Orchis

EE ORCHIS. Orchis. Class 19, Syngenesia. Order: Monogynia. This plant is singularly beautiful in its appearance, which so much resembles the bee, that it is frequently mistaken for one resting on the plant. It commonly grows near woods, and in the open meadows. The most successful method of cultivation is by choosing a soil and situation as natural to them as possible, and by suffering the grass to grow around them.
ERROR.
Bisuop Mant.
Shakspeare.
Prior.
# Flora's Lexicon/Bell Flower

ELL-FLOWER, ROUNDLEAVED BELL-FLOWER, or HAREBELL. Campanula Rotundifolia. Class 5, Penrandria. Or- der: Monogynia. The name of Bell-flower was never more appropriately bestowed than on this pretty, delicate plant, which has been imagined by some fanciful poets to ring out a peal of fairy music.
CONSTANCY.
Twamley
Jonson.
Shirley.
# Flora's Lexicon/Bay

AY. Laurus Nobilis. Class 9, Enneandria. Order: Monogynia. The Laurus Nobilis, or Sweet Bay, though but a shrub in our country, in Asia and the southern parts of Europe, its proper birth-place, attains to the height of twenty or thirty feet. It grows very freely on the banks of the river Peneus, in Thessaly; and hence, perhaps, the fable of the metamorphosis of Daphne, daughter of that river. It also, with classic propriety, adorns mounts Ida and Athos.
REWARD OF MERIT.
Anon.
# Flora's Lexicon/Bird Cherry

IRD-CHERRY. Prunus Padus. Class 12, Icosandria. Order: Monogynia. The bird-cherry is indigenous in most parts of Europe; it even opens its fragile flowers to the nipping air of Russia and Siberia. It abounds in the northern counties of England, and is profusely scattered among the woods, and on the borders of the mountain torrents of Scotland. In these natural fastnesses, where it is more likely to escape the stroke of the axe, it often rises to the height of fifteen feet from a stem eighteen inches in diameter, and spreads its branches to a considerable distance.
HOPE.
Anon.
# Flora's Lexicon/Bay-berry

AY-BERRY, or WAX-MYRTLE, Myrica cerifera, Class 22, Diœcia. Order: Tetrandria. The Bay-berry, or Wax-myrtle, is a shrub found in the Northern and Middle Atlantic States, growing chiefly in barren soils. The name is derived from a wax-like substance, of a greenish colour and pleasant odour, which is obtained from the berries, and in some districts very abundantly.
INSTRUCTION.
Byron.
Byron.
Bowring.
# Flora's Lexicon/Beech

EECH. Fagus Sylvatica. Class 21, Monœcia. Order: Ponyandria. To admire the beech, is to rebel against high authority; yet who, that is not entirely devoted to pictorial effect, but must admire it? The oak may excel it in dignity, the elm in beauty, and the ash in gracefulness: still the beech is a noble tree; and in spring, the bright sunny tint of its feathery foliage renders it a most attractive object.
WEDDED LOVE.
Anon.
# Flora's Lexicon/Birch

IRCH. Betula Alba. Class 21, Monœcia. Order: Polyandria. There is an elegance in the general appearance of the birch which fully justifies the poet’s fancy, and entitles it to the appellation he has given it, of “Lady of the Woods.” In every season, and under all circumstances, it is a lovely object; nothing can exceed the tender hue of its vernal leaves, as they wave to and fro in the sunshine. In summer, perhaps, it loses something of its beauty, as its bright tints then subside into a more sober green; still it preserves its gracefulness of aspect. In autumn it almost more than regains what it lost in summer; whilst winter, which deprives most other vegetable productions of their charms, by displaying more fully the slight silvery stem and delicate ramifications of the birch, seems but to invest it with new attractions.
GRACEFULNESS.
Anon.
# Flora's Lexicon/Blue Bottle

LUE-BOTTLE. Centaurea Cyanus. Class 19, Syngenesia. Order: Frustranea. The beautiful blue of this flower, which is of the colour of an unclouded sky, has made it the emblem of a tender and delicate sentiment, nourished by hope. According to ancient fable, this plant was called Cyanus, after a youth of that name, whose attachment to corn-flowers was so strong, that he employed his time chiefly in making garlands of them, seldom leaving the fields so long as his favourite flower was to be found, and always dressing himself in the fine blue colour of the flower he so much admired. Flora was his goddess; and, of all her gifts, this was the one he most admired. At last the youth was found dead in a corn-field, in the midst of a quantity of blue-bottles he had gathered. Soon after Flora transformed his body into this flower, in token of the veneration he had for her divinity.
DELICACY.
Anon.
# Flora's Lexicon/Bird’s Foot Trefoil

IRD’S-FOOT TREFOIL. Lotos. Class 17, Diadelphia. Order: Decandria. There are many species of the Bird’s-Foot Trefoil. The most common Lotos Corniculatus is found in open grassy pastures, where it enlivens the Autumn, with its golden yellow flowers, striped with dark red. Its stem is clothed with close-pressed hairs, and its seed-vessel is copper-coloured. It is recommended for fodder for cattle, by the name of Milk Vetch.
REVENGE.
Moore.
Byron.
Young.
Shakspeare.
# Gesta Romanorum Vol. I (1871)/Of maintaining Truth to the last

TALE LXVIII.
OF MAINTAINING TRUTH TO THE LAST.
In the reign of Gordian, there was a certain noble soldier who had a fair but vicious wife. ​It happened that her husband, having occasion to travel, the lady sent for her gallant, and rioted in every excess of wickedness. Now, one of her handmaids, it seems, was skilful in interpreting the song of birds; and in the court of the castle there were three cocks. (65) During the night, while the gallant was with his mistress, the first cock began to crow. The lady heard it, and said to her servant, "Dear friend, what says yonder cock?" She replied, "That you are grossly injuring your husband." "Then," said the lady, "kill that cock without delay." They did so; but soon after, the second cock crew, and the lady repeated her question. "Madam," said the handmaid, "he says, 'My companion died for revealing the truth, and for the same cause, I am prepared to die.'" "Kill him," cried the lady, which they did. After this, the third cock crew; "What says he?" asked she again. "Hear, see, and say nothing, if you would live in peace." "Oh, oh!" said the lady, "don't kill him."
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the emperor is God, the soldier, Christ; and the wife, the soul. The gallant is the devil. The handmaid is conscience. The first cock is our Saviour, who was put to death; the second is the martyrs; and the third is a preacher who ought to be earnest in declaring the truth, but being deterred by menaces, is afraid to utter it.
Note 65.Page 239.
The interpretation of the language of birds, is clearly an oriental fiction; several instances of which are furnished by the Arabian Tales. It has since been made the vehicle of many instructive fables. See Spectator, Vol. VII. No. 512. which is copied from the "Story of the two Owls," in the Turkish Tales.
# Gesta Romanorum Vol. I (1871)/Of good Rulers, who are not to be changed

TALE LIII.
OF GOOD RULERS, WHO ARE NOT TO BE CHANGED.
Valerius Maximus (54) states, that when all the Syracusans desired the death of Dionysius, king of Sicily, a single woman every morning entreated the Gods to continue his life and his sovereignty. Dionysius, surprised at this solitary exception, inquired the reason. She answered, "When I was a girl, and governed by a tyrant, I wished for his removal, and presently we obtained a worse instead. Having got rid of him, a worse still succeeded; and therefore, under the justifiable apprehension that your place may be filled up by a very devil, I pray earnestly for your ​longer continuance." Dionysius, hearing this, gave her no farther trouble.
APPLICATION.
My beloved, be not desirous of change. God is merciful and gracious—be content with His government.
Note 54.Page 174.
The anecdote is thus recorded by the historian: "Senectutis ultimæ quædam, Syracusanis omnibus Dionysii tyranni exitum, propter nimiam morum acerbitatem et intolerabilia onera, votis expetentibus, sola quotidie matutino tempore deos, ut incolumis ac sibi superstes esset, orabat. Quod ubi is cognovit, non debitam sibi admiratus benevolentiam, arcessit eam, et quid ita hoc, aut quo suo merito faceret, interrogavit. Tum illa, certa est, inquit, ratio propositi mei, puella enim, cum gravem tyrannum haberemus, carere eo cupiebam: quo interfecto, aliquanto tetrior arcem occupavit. Ejus quoque finiri dominationem magni æstimabam: tertium te superioribus importuniorem habere cœpimus rectorem. Itaque timens, ne, si tu fueris absumptus, deterior in locum tuum succedat, caput meam pro tua salute devoveo. Tam facetam audaciam Dionysius punire erubuit."
Val Max. Lib. vi. c. 2. Ex. 2.
This must remind the reader of Æsop's fable of the frogs who desired a king. Which is the original? It occurs among some translated Dutch fables by De Witt, under the title of "A woman praying for the long Life of Dionysius the Tyrant." See the Appendix.
APPENDIX.
Note I.
Tale LIII. Vol. I. p. 174.
This tale has been copied in a story cited by Mr. Douce in his Illustrations of Shakspeare, vol. ii. and dated about the reign of Henry III.
"Quidam abbas dedit monachis suis tria fercula. Dixerunt monachi, Iste parum dat nobis. Rogemus Deum ut cito moriatur. Et sive ex hac causa, sive ex alia, mortuus est. Substitutus est alius, qui eis tamen dedit duo fercula. Irati monachi contristati dixerunt, Nunc magis est orandum, quia unum ferculum subtractum est, Deus subtrahat ei vitam suam. Tandem mortuus est. Substitutus est tertius, qui duo fercula subtrahat. Irati monachi dixerunt, Iste pessimus est inter omnes, quia fame nos interfecit; rogemus Deum quod cito moriatur. Dixit unus monachus, Rogo Deum quod det ei vitam ​longam, et manu teneat eum nobis. Alii admirati quærebant quare hoc diceret: qui ait, Vide quod primus fuit malus, secundus pejor, iste pessimus; timeo quod cum mortuus fuerit alius pejor succedit qui penitus nos fame perimet. Unde solet dici, Seilde comed se betere." [Seldom comes a better.]
# Gesta Romanorum Vol. I (1871)/Of lifting up the Mind to Heaven

TALE XXXVII.
OF LIFTING UP THE MIND TO HEAVEN.
Pliny (34) mentions the story of an eagle that had built her nest upon a lofty rock, ​whose young a kind of serpent called Perna (35) attempted to destroy. But finding that they were beyond her reach, she stationed herself to windward and emitted a large quantity of poisonous matter, so as to infect the atmosphere and poison the young birds. But the eagle, led by the unerring power of instinct, took this precaution. She fetched a peculiar sort of stone called Achates, (36) which she deposited in that quarter of the nest, which was opposite to the wind; and the stone, by virtue of certain occult properties which it possessed, prevented the malicious intentions of the serpent from taking effect.
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the eagle is any man of quick perception and aspiring mind. The young birds are good works, which the devil—that is, the serpent—endeavours to destroy by temptation. The rock on which the eagle built, is Christ.
Note 34.Page 143.
This story does not appear in Pliny.
Note 35.Page 144.
"Serpent called Perna."
There is no such monster in Pliny. He uses the word for a scion or graft, book 17. c. x. and it also signifies a kind of shell-fish, according to Basil. Faber.
Note 36.Page 144.
"Achates."
Achates is the Latin name for agate. "Found it was first in Sicilie, near unto a river called likewise Achates; but afterwards in many other places." ​ "People are persuaded that it availeth much against the sting of venomous spiders and scorpions: which propertie I could very well believe to be in the Sicilian agaths, for that so soone as scorpions come within the aire, and breath of the said province of Sicilie, as venomous as they bee otherwise, they die thereupon." "In Persia, they are persuaded, that a perfume of agathes turneth away tempests and all extraordinarie impressions of the aire, as also staieth the violent streame and rage of rivers. But to know which be proper for this purpose, they use to cast them into a cauldron of seething water: for if they coole the same, it is an argument that they bee right."—Pliny Nat. Hist. xxxvii. 10.
# Gesta Romanorum Vol. I (1871)/Of mortal Sins

TALE XLVI.
OF MORTAL SINS.
Julius relates, that in the month of May a certain man entered a grove, in which stood seven beautiful trees in leaf. The leaves so much attracted him, that he collected more than he had strength to carry. On this, three men came to his assistance, who led away both the man and the load beneath which he laboured. As he went out he fell into a deep pit, and the extreme weight upon his shoulders sank him to the very bottom.—The same author also relates, in his history of animals, that if, after a crow had built her nest, you wished to hinder her from hatching her eggs, place between the bark and the tree a quantity of pounded glass; and as long as it remained in that situation, she would never bring off her young. ​
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the grove is the world, wherein are many trees, pleasant indeed to the eye, but putting forth only mortal sins. With these, man loads himself. The three men, who brought assistance, are the devil, the world, and the flesh: the pit is hell.—Again, the crow is the devil; the nest the heart; which he too frequently inhabits. The pounded glass is the remembrance of our latter end: the tree is the soul, and the bark is the human body.
# Gesta Romanorum Vol. I (1871)/Of good Inspiration

TALE XXXII.
OF GOOD INSPIRATION.
Seneca mentions, that in poisoned bodies, on account of the malignancy and coldness of the poison, no worm will engender; but if the body be struck with lightning, in a few days it will be full of them. (28)
APPLICATION.
My beloved, men are poisoned by sin, and then they produce no worm, that is, no virtue; but struck with lightning, that is, by the grace of God, they are fruitful in good works.
Note 28.Page 131.
Seneca's observations are singular: 'Illud æquè inter annotanda ponas licet, quòd et hominum, et cœterorum animalium quæ icta sunt, caput spectat ad exitum fulminis: quòd omnium percussarum arborum contra fulmina hastulæ sergunt. Quid, quòd malorum serpentium, et aliorum animalium, quibus mortifera vis inest, cum fulmine icta sunt, venenum omne consumitur? Unde, inquit, scis? In venenatis corporibus vermis non nascitur. Fulmine ictâ, intra paucos dies verminant." Nat. Quæst. lib. ii. 31.