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# Latin for beginners (1911)/Part III/Lesson LXII

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LESSON LXII
THE SUBJUNCTIVE OF PURPOSE
348. Observe the sentence
Caesar hominēs mittit quī pontem reperiant, Cæsar sends men to find the bridge
The verb reperiant in the dependent clause is in the subjunctive because it tells us what Cæsar wants the men to do; in other words, it expresses his will and the purpose in his mind. Such a use of the subjunctive is called the subjunctive of purpose.
​349. Rule. Subjunctive of Purpose. The subjunctive is used in a dependent clause to express the purpose of the action in the principal clause.
350. A clause of purpose is introduced as follows:
I. If something is wanted, by
       quī, the relative pronoun (as above)
       ut, conj., in order that, that
       quō (abl. of quī, by which), in order that, that, used when the purpose clause contains a comparative. The ablative quō expresses the measure of difference. (Cf. § 317.)
II. If something is not wanted, by
       nē, conj., in order that not, that not, lest
351.
EXAMPLES
352. Expression of Purpose in English. In English, purpose clauses are sometimes introduced by that or in order that, but much more frequently purpose is expressed in English by the infinitive, as We eat to live, She stoops to conquer. In Latin prose, on the other hand, purpose is never expressed by the infinitive. Be on your guard and do not let the English idiom betray you into this error.
353.
EXERCISES
I.
3. Mittit nūntiōs quī
dicant, audiant, veniant, nārrent, audiantur, in conciliō sedeant.
4. Castra mūniunt quō facilius
sēsē dēfendant, impetum sustineant, hostīs vincant, salūtem petant.
II.
* The Helvetii send ambassadors to seek peace.
* They are setting out at daybreak in order that they may make a longer march before night.
* They will hide the women in the forest (acc. with in) that they may not be captured.
* The Gauls wage many wars to free their fatherland from slavery.
* They will resist the Romans bravely lest they be destroyed.
* ↑ Not infinitive.
* ↑ Not accusative.
References
# Latin for beginners (1911)/Part III/Lesson LXV

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LESSON LXV
THE SUBJUNCTIVE OF POSSUM • VERBS OF FEARING
369. Learn the subjunctive of possum (§ 495), and note especially the position of the accent.
370. Subjunctive after Verbs of Fearing. We have learned that what we want done or not done is expressed in Latin by a subjunctive clause of purpose. In this class belong also clauses after verbs of fearing, for we fear either that something will happen or that it will not, and we either want it to happen or we do not. If we want a thing to happen and fear that it will not, the purpose clause is introduced by ut. If we do not want it to happen and fear that it will, nē is used. Owing to a difference between the English and Latin idiom we translate ut after a verb of fearing by that not, and nē by that or lest.
371.
EXAMPLES
| timeō timēbō timuerō | ut | veniat   vēnerit |
I fear, shall fear, shall have feared, that he will not come, has not come
| timēbam timuī timueram | ut | venīret   vēnisset |
I was fearing, feared, had feared, that he would not come, had not come
The same examples with nē instead of ut would be translated I fear that or lest he will come, hascome, etc.
372. Rule. Subjunctive after Verbs of Fearing. Verbs of fearing are followed by a substantive clause of purpose introduced by ut (that not) or nē (that or lest). ​373.
EXERCISES
I.
* Caesar verēbātur ut supplicium captīvōrum Gallīs placēret.
* Rōmānī ipsī magnopere verēbantur nē Helvētiī iter per prōvinciam facerent.
* Timēbant ut satis reī frūmentāriae mittī posset.
* Vereor ut hostium impetum sustinēre possim.
* Timuit nē impedīmenta ab hostibus capta essent. 6. Caesar numquam timuit nē legiōnēs vincerentur.
* Legiōnēs pugnāre nōn timuērunt.
References
# Key to the Exercises in Adler's Grammar/Dictata 1
## 1. Dictāta Prīma.

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* Habēsne mēnsam (Estne tibi mēnsa)? — Etiam, domine, habeō mēnsam (Est mihi mēnsa).
* Habēsne mēnsam meam (Estne tibi mēnsa mea)? — Mēnsam tuam habeō (Est mihi mēnsa tua).
* Habēsne pennam tuam (Estne tibi penna tua)? Pennam meam habeō (Est mihi penna mea).
* Habēsne saccharum (Estne tibi saccharum)? — Saccharum habeō (Est mihi saccharum).
* Habēsne saccharum meum (Estne tibi saccharum meum)? — Saccharum tuum habeō (Est mihi saccharum tuum).
* Habēsne chartam (Estne tibi charta)? — Chartam habeō (Est mihi charta).
* Habēsne chartam tuam (Estne tibi charta tua)? — Chartam meam habeō (Est mihi charta mea).
* Habēsne sāl (Estne tibi sāl)? — Sāl habeō (Est mihi sāl).
* Habēsne sāl meum (Estne tibi sāl meum)? — Sāl tuum habeō (Est mihi sāl tuum).
# Key to the Exercises in Adler's Grammar/Dictata 12
## 12. Dictāta Duodecima.

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* Quod foenum habet peregrīnus ? — (Foenum) rūsticī habet.
* Num nauta speculum meum habet ? — Nōn habet.
* Utrum tibi candēla est haecce an illa ? — Est mihi haecce.
* Utrum foenum tenes hortī meī an tuī ? — Nec tuī hortī nec meī foenum teneō, vērum (illud) peregrīnī.
* Quod digitābulum tibi est ? — Est mihi digitābulum ejus (illius).
* Quam sellam habet peregrīnus ? — Suam propriam habet.
* Quis candēlam meam bonam habet ? — Hīc homō eam habet.
* Quis speculum illud habet? — Peregrīnus (id habet).
* Quid famulus tuus tenet? — Arborem hūjus hortī tenet.
* Num librum illīus hominis habet ? — Nōn illīus hominis, sed hūjus puerī librum habet.
* Quem bovem habet hīcce rūsticus? — Vīcīnī tuī bovem habet.
* Utrum egō epistolam habeō tuam an ejus ? — Tū neque meam neque ejus habēs, vērum amīci tuī.
* Estne tibi foenum hūjus equī ? — Nōn est mihi ejus foenum, vērum ejus solea ferrea.
* Habetne frāter tuus meam scidulam an suam? — Illam nautae habet (Scidulam nautae habet).
* Utrum hie peregrīnus digitābulum habet meum an suum ? — Neque tuum neque suum proprium habet, sed amīcī suī.
* Utrum ēsurīs an sitīs ? — Egō neque ēsuriō nec sitiō, sed cupidus somnī sum.
* Utrum ille est somniculōsus an ēsurit? — Neque somniculōsus est neque ēsurit, sed fessus est.
* Estne mihi culter bonus an nequam ? — Nōn est tibi nec bonus nec nequam, vērum turpis.
* Quid mihi est ? — Nōn est tibi quidquam bonī, sed aliquid nequam (malum).
* Quis asinum meum habet ? — Rūsticus eum habet.
# Key to the Exercises in Adler's Grammar/Dictata 14
## 14. Dictāta Quārta Decima.

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* Habēsne mēnsās? — Ita est, domine, mēnsās habeō.
* Num mēnsās meās habēs? — Nōn verō, domine, mēnsās tuās nōn habeō.
* Teneone orbiculōs fibulatōriōs tuōs? — Tenēs meōs orbiculōs fibulatōriōs.
* Suntne mihi domus tuae formōsae? — Sunt tibi domus meae formōsae.
* Habetne sartor orbiculōs fibulatōriōs? — Orbiculōs fibulatōriōs nōn habet, vērum fīla.
* Tenetne sartor tuus orbiculōs fibulatōriōs meōs? — Sartor meus orbiculōs fibulatōriōs tuōs aureōs tenet.
* Quid habet puer? — Fīla aurea habet.
* Utrum eī sunt fīla mea aurea an argentea? — Nōn sunt eī neque aurea neque argentea tua fīla.
* Utrum domōs pulchrās an scidulās bonās habet Francogallus? — Nec domōs pulchrās, nec scidulās bonās habet.
* Quid habet? — Amīcōs suōs bonōs habet.
* Num hīc homō umbrācula mea pulchra habet? — Nōn umbrācula tua pulchra, sed togās tuās bonās habet.
* Num quis (Ecquis) epistolās meās bonās habet? — Nemō epistolās tuās bonās habet.
* Tenetne fīlius sartōris cultrōs meōs bonōs an munīmenta digitī mea bona? — Tenet nec cultrōs tuōs bonōs, nec munīmenta digitī tua bona, vērum togās peregrīnī turpēs.
* Num mihi sunt bonās amīcī tuī taeniae? — Nōn sunt tibi bonae amīcī meī taeniae, vērum bonum vicinī meī pīlentum.
* Utrum amīcus tuus bella sutōris bācula habet, an venustōs sartōris meī bonī canēs? — amīcus meus pulchrōs sutōris meī bonī librōs habet; nōn autem habet nec bella sutōris bācula nec venustōs sartōris tuī bonī canēs.
* Utrum vīcīnus tuus vērē loquitur an errat? — Neque vērē loquitur neque errat.
* Utrum sitit an ēsurit? — Neque sitit neque ēsurit.
* Estne fessus an somniculōsus? — Somniculōsus ēs.
* Egōne (Num egō) somniculōsus sum? — Nōn ēs somniculōsus.
* Quid habeō? — Schedulās meās pulchrās habēs.
* Sellās vīcīnī meī habēs.
* Suntne tibi (Num tibi sunt) cultrī amīcī meī? — amīcī tuī cultrī mihi nōn sunt; vērum canēs vīcīnī meī (Cultrōs amīcī tuī nōn habeō ; habeō autem canēs vīcīnī meī).
# Key to the Exercises in Adler's Grammar/Dictata 11
## 11. Dictāta Ūndecima.

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* Quam nāvem habet mercātor (Quae nāvis mercātōrī est)? — Suam propriam habet.
* Quem equum habet amīcus meus? — Meum habet.
* Ecquid ille canem suum habet? — Nōn habet.
* Quis canem ejus tenet (Cuī est canis ejus)? — Nēmo eum tenet (Nēminī est).
* Quis umbrāculum frātris meī habet? — Aliquis id tenet.
* Quās scōpās habet famulus? — Suās propriās habet.
* Ēsuritne aliquis (Num quis ēsurit)? — Nēmo ēsurit.
* Num quis est somniculōsus? — Nūllus somniculōsus est.
* Estne aliquis fessus? — Nōn est quisquam fessus.
* Quis rēctē loquitur? — Nēmo rēctē (vērē) loquitur.
* Egōne (Num egō) buccellātum ejus habeō? — Tū nōn habēs.
* An egō frātris illīus bonī taurum (bovem) habeō? — Nōn habēs.
* Quae gallīna mihi est (Quam gallīnam habeō)? — Ejus habēs.
* Num quis errat (Erratne aliquis)? — Nēmo errat.
# Key to the Exercises in Adler's Grammar/Dictata 15
## 15. Dictāta Quinta Decima.

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* Habēsne equōs hōsce an illōs? — Nōn hōsce sed illōs habeō.
* Suntne tibi togae Francogallōrum an illae Anglōrum?
* Nōn sunt mihi illae Francogallōrum, sed (vērum) illae Anglōrum.
* Utrum pulchrās Turcārum habēs ovēs an illās Hispānōrum? — Nec Turcārum nec Hispānōrum habeō, vērum illōs frātris meī.
* Utrum frāter tuus formōsōs Hispānōrum asinōs habet an illōs Italōrum? — Nōn habet neque Hispanōrum neque illōs Italōrum ; habet autem formōsōs Francogallōrum asinōs.
* Quī bovēs frātrī tuō sunt? — Sunt eī illī Germanōrum.
* Utrum amīcus tuus epistolās meās longās habet an illās Germanōrum? — Nōn habet neque unās neque alterās.
* Quās epistolās habet? — Habet epistolās parvās, quās tu habēs.
* Utrum egō domōs habeō hāsce an illās? — Neque hāsce neque illās habēs.
* Quās domōs habeō (Quās domūs mihi sunt)? — Anglōrum habēs (Tibī sunt illae Anglōrum).
* Tenetne aliquis (Num quis tenet) orbiculōs fibulātōriōs aureōs sartōris? — Nemō tenet orbiculōs fibulātōriōs aureōs sartōris; tenet autem aliquis illōs amīcī tuī.
# Key to the Exercises in Adler's Grammar/Dictata 16
## 16. Dictāta Sexta Decima.

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* Utrum egō schedulās peregrīnōrum an illās puerī meī habeō? — Nōn habēs neque peregrīnōrum neque puerī tuī, vērum illās Turcārum magnōrum.
* Tenetne (Num tenet) Turca equum meum formōsum? — Nōn tenet.
* Quem equum tenet? — Suum proprium tenet.
* Utrum vīcīnus tuus gallīnam meam an ovem meam habet? — Vīcinus mēus neque gallīnam tuam neque ovem tuam habet.
* Quid habet? — Nihil bonī habet.
* Estne tibi nihil pulchrī? — Nōn est mihi quidquam pulchrī.
* Num fessus es (Ecquid fessus es, or Fessusne es, or Esne fessus)? — Nōn fessus sum.
* Quam orȳzam habet amīcus tuus? — Habet illam mercātōris suī.
* Quod saccharum habet? — Habet id quod egō habeō.
* Utrum coffeam habet mercātōris tuī bonam an illam meī? — Neque illam tuī habet neque illam meī; suam propriam habet.
* Quae nāvēs Francogallō sunt? — Sunt eī nāvēs Anglōrum.
* Quās domōs habet Hispānus? — Eāsdem habet, quās tū habēs (Easdem habet tēcum).
* Tenetne cultrōs meōs bonōs? — Tenet cultrōs tuōs bonōs.
* Habetne tībiālia lintea, quae egō habeō? — Nōn eadem, quae tu habēs, vērum illa frātris suī habet.
* Quī tibi librī sunt? — Sunt mihi illī Rōmānōrum.
* Ēsuriuntne hominēs illī (Ecquid, num or numquid hominēs illī ēsuriunt)? — Nōn ēsuriunt, sed sitiunt. — Nec fessī nec somniculōsī sunt.
# Key to the Exercises in Adler's Grammar/Dictata 2
## 2. Dictāta Altera.

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* Habesne pilleum pulchrum (Estne tibi pilleus pulcher)? — Etiam, domine, pilleum pulchrum habeō (Est mihi pilleus pulcher).
* Habesne pilleum meum nēquam (Estne tibi pilleus mens nēquam)? — Habeō pilleum tuum nēquam (Est mihi pilleus tuus nēquam).
* Habesne (Estne tibi) sāl vīle? — Habeō (Est mihi) sāl vīle.
* Habesne (Estne tibi) sāl tuum bonum? — Sal meum bonum habeō (Est mihi sāl meum bonum).
* Quod sāl habēs (tibi est)? — Sal tuuna bonum habeo (mihi est).
* Quod saccharum habēs (tibi est)? — Saccharum meum bonum habeō (mihi est).
* Habesne (Estne tibi) saccharum meum bonum? — Saccharum tuum bonum habeō (mihi est).
* Quam mēnsam habēs (Quas mēnsa tibi est)? — Mēnsam pulchram habeō (Mihi est mēnsa pulchra).
* Habesne mēnsam meam pulchram (Estne tibi mēnsa mea pulchra)? — Mēnsam tuam pulchram habeō (Est mihi mēnsa tua pulchra).
* Quam chartam habēs (Quae charta tibi est)? — Chartam vīlem habeō (Charta mihi vīlis est).
* Habesne chartam meam turpem (Estne tibi charta mea turpis)? — Chartam tuam turpem habeō (Est mihi charta tua turpis).
* Quem pilleum vīlem habēs (Qui pilleus vīlis tibi est)? — Meum pilleum vīlem habeō (pilleus meus vīlis mihi est).
* Quam taeniam pulchram habēs (Quae taenia pulchra tibi est)? — Taeniam tuam pulchram habeō (Taenia tua pulchra mihi est).$^1$
* Habēsne pennam meam pulchram (Estne tibi penna mea pulchra)? — Habeō pennam tuam pulchram (Est mihi penna tua pulchra).
$^1$ Answer absent in the original text of the key.
# Key to the Exercises in Adler's Grammar/Dictata 10
## 10. Dictāta Decima.

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* Utrum tibi est (Estne tibi) bōs rūsticī an (ille) coquī? — Nōn est mihi nec bōs rūsticī nec coquī.
* Habetne rūsticus orȳzam suam? — Habet.
* Num tū eam habēs? — Eam nōn habeō.
* Habetne ejus puer scōpās ministrī? — Habet.
* Quis stilum cērussātum puerī habet? — Nēmo eum habet.
* Utrum frāter tuus bāculum tenet meum an pictōris? — Tenet nec tuum nec pictōris; suum proprium tenet.
* Utrum ei est pecūnia bona an vīlis? — Est eī neque bona neque vīlis.
* Utrum equum habet ligneum an plumbeum? — Nec ligneum nec plumbeum equum habet.
* Quid eī bonī est? — Est eī mel meum bonum.
* Num vīcīnī meī puer librum meum habet? — (Eum) nōn habet.
* Quem librum habet? — Librum suum pulchrum habet.
* Tenetne librum meum (Meumne librum tenet) an suummet? — Suum proprium tenet.
* Quis orbiculum fibulātōrium meum aureum tenet? — Nēmo eum tenet.
* Num quis tībiāle meum linteum habet? — Nēmo habet.
# Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/The Black-Rock Fort and Lighthouse

See Fort Perch Rock
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* THE BLACK ROCK FORT AND LIGHTHOUSE, LIVERPOOL.
* Artist: S. Austin - Engraved by: Robt. Wallis
THE BLACK-ROCK FORT AND LIGHTHOUSE.
Thank God, thank God—the beacon light Is breaking beautiful through night; Urge the boat through the surge, once more We are beside our English shore.
 Oh! weary nights and days to me Have set and risen upon the sea; I never wish to sail again O'er the interminable main.
 ‘Tis wonderful to see the sky Hang out her guiding stars on high, And mirror'd in the ocean fair, As if another heaven were there.
 And glorious is it thus to go, The white foam dashing from the prow, As our ship through the waves hath gone, Mistress of all she looked upon.
 But weary is it for the eye To only meet the sea and sky; And weary is it for the ear But only winds and waves to hear.
 I pined for leaves, I pined for flowers, For meadows green, with driving showers; For all the sights and sounds of life, Wherewith the air of earth is rife.
 Farewell, wild waves, again I come To England and my English home; Thank God, thank God, the beacon light Is breaking beautiful through night.
# Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/The Giant’s Causeway

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* THE GIANT’S CAUSEWAY, IRELAND.
* Artist: T. M. Baynes - Engraved by: W. LePetit
THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY.
The magnificent basaltic formation on the northern coast of Ireland, called the "Giants' Causeway," presents so artificial an appearance, that some writers have asserted that it is not a natural production, and it is traditionally said to have been the work of those mighty men of old, after whom it is named. Sir Joshua Reynolds, in his discourses, observes, that "Travellers into the East tell us, that when the ignorant inhabitants of these countries are interrogated concerning the ruins of stately edifices yet remaining among them, the melancholy monuments of their former grandeur and long-lost science, they always answer, that they were built by magicians. The untaught mind finds a vast gulf between its own powers and those works of complicated art which it is utterly unable to fathom, and it supposes that such a void can only be passed by supernatural means."
They met beside the stormy sea, those giant kings of old, And on each awful brow was set, a crown of burning gold. No ray the yet unrisen stars, or the wan moonbeams, gave, But far and bright, the meteor light shone over cloud and wave.
"I have been over earth to-day," exclaimed one mighty king, "The toil of half the human race, it is a foolish thing; For I have seen on Egypt's land, an abject million slave,
To build a lofty pyramid above their monarch's grave.
"Now let us put their works to scorn, and in a single night Rear what would take them centuries, and nations' banded might," Then up arose each giant king, and took a mighty stone, They laid the quay; they piled the rocks—ere morn the work was done.
Vain fable this! yet not so vain as it may seem to be, Methinks that now too much we live to cold reality; The selfish and the trading world clips man so closely round, No bold or fair imaginings within our hearts are found.
So vortex-like doth wealth now draw, all other feelings in, Too much we calculate, and wealth, becomes almost a sin; We look upon the lovely earth, and think what it may yield; We only ask for crops, not flowers, from every summer field.
The mind grows coarse, the soul confined, while thus from day to day We let the merely common-place eat phantasie away: Aye, better to believe, I trow, the legends framed of old— Aught—anything to snatch one thought, from selfishness and gold.
# Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/The Grass-Rope Bridge, at Teree

See Tehri, Garhwal
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* GRASS ROPE BRIDGE AT TEREE, - GURWALL.
* Artist: David Cox - Engraved by: W. Taylor
THE GRASS-ROPE BRIDGE, AT TEREE,
IN THE PROVINCE OF GURWALL.
"The English who have lost their health, often resort to these hills for the hot season, where the air and exercise are sometimes as beneficial as the voyage to Europe." The following verses allude to the early death of a young friend, who, adopted by some distant relatives, accompanied them to India; and died in this very spot, whither she had been taken for the recovery of her health.
We had to watch the fading Of that young and lovely cheek, And that pale lip's mute upbraiding, Which asked not sound to speak.
We saw that she was pining For her own loved English land, And her life's sweet light declining, For she loathed our Indian strand;
Her heart was with her mother, Far o'er the salt sea foam, And she could not love another, As she loved her early home.
She clung with love too tender To every former scene, For one of Eastern splendour, To be what they had been.
Alas, why did we bring her To this golden land in vain? Ah, would that we could wing her To her native land again!
We never see her weeping, But we know that she does weep; And she names loved names in sleeping, As she names them but in sleep.
We watch one bright spot burning On her cheek of hectic red, And we dread each day's returning, Lest it rise but for the dead.
# Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/The House in which Roscoe was Born

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* THE HOUSE IN WHICH ROSCOE WAS BORN.
* MOUNT PLEASANT, LIVERPOOL.
* Artist: S. Austin - Engraved by: Robt. Wallis
THE HOUSE IN WHICH ROSCOE WAS BORN.
A lowly roof, an English farm-house roof— What is the train of thought that it should wake? Why cheerful evenings, when the winter cold Grows glad beside the hearth; or summer days, When round the shady porch the woodbine clings; Some aged man beneath, to hear whose words The children leave off play; for he can tell Of the wild sea, a sailor in his youth. Yet here the mind's eye pictures other scenes— A fair Italian city, in a vale, The sanctuary of summer, where the air Grows sweet in passing over myrtle groves. Glides the blue Arno, in whose tide are glassed Armed palaces, with marble battlements. Forth ride a band of princely chivalry, And at their head a gallant chieftain—he, Lorenzo the magnificent. Within this house was thy historian born, Florence, thou pictured city; and his name Calls up thy rich romance of history; And this calm English dwelling fills the mind With memories of Medici—
It is scarcely necessary to state that Mr. Roscoe's principal work was the Life of Lorenzo di Medicis.
# Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/The African

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* THE AFRICAN.
* Artist: Henry Meyer - Engraved by: H. Meyer
THE AFRICAN.
It was a king in Africa,  He had an only son; And none of Europe's crowned kings  Could have a dearer one.
With good cane arrows five feet long,  And with a shining bow, When but a boy, to the palm woods  Would that young hunter go.
And home he brought white ivory,  And many a spotted hide; When leopards fierce and beautiful  Beneath his arrows died.
Around his arms, around his brow,  A shining bar was rolled; It was to mark his royal blood,  He wore that bar of gold.
And often at his father's feet,  The evening he would pass; When, weary of the hunt, he lay  Upon the scented grass.
Alas! it was an evil day,  When such a thing could be; When strangers, pale and terrible,  Came o'er the distant sea.
They found the young prince mid the woods,  The palm woods deep and dark: That day his lion hunt was done,  They bore him to their bark.
They bound him in a narrow hold,  With others of his kind; For weeks did that accursed ship  Sail on before the wind.
Now shame upon the cruel wind,  And on the cruel sea, That did not with some mighty storm,  Set those poor captives free:
Or, shame to those weak thoughts, so fain  To have their wilful way: God knoweth what is best for all—  The winds and seas obey.
At length a lovely island rose  From out the ocean wave, They took him to the market-place,  And sold him for a slave.
Some built them homes, and in the shade  Of flowered and fragrant trees, They half forgot the palm-hid huts  They left far o'er the seas.
But he was born of nobler blood,  And was of nobler kind; And even unto death, his heart  For its own kindred pined.
There came to him a seraph child  With eyes of gentlest blue: If there are angels in high heaven,  Earth has its angels too.
She cheered him with her holy words,  She soothed him with her tears; And pityingly she spoke with him  Of home and early years.
And when his heart was all subdued  By kindness into love, She taught him from this weary earth  To look in faith above.
She told him how the Saviour died  For man upon the tree; "He suffered," said the holy child,  "For you as well as me."
Sorrow and death have need of faith—  The African believed; As rains fall fertile on the earth,  Those words his soul received.
He died in hope, as only those  Who die in Christ depart— One blessed name within his lips,  One hope within his heart.