Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-08-20

sible to sleep on the night before my arrival
at Thebes. The soul at such moments feels a
tumultuous joy, which stern reason, perhaps,
will scarcely justify but the sources of it
are within you-you have been replenishing
them from your childhood by the study of
history, poetry. and romance. II is you who
make the earth paradise or a hell for your
self. would not sleep on the night of my
arrival in Italy--that is, determined to re-
sist it but having been kept awake by supe-
rior excitement the whole of the night before
my resolution was but half kept. l found
myself doing and dreaming perpetually, as
the heevy diligence, laden with sleeping men
and women, went jolting drowsily along the
plains of Lombardy. Will the reader pardon
me if relate one of my dreams have
said that had left at home host of children,
among whom was charming little girl, six
months old. There is no explaining the me-
chanism of fancy; but, after travelling long
/ and far through the unreal world, | arrived
at length at the garden Of Jolmont, where
saw my baby smiling in ner mothers arms
| stopped forward to kiss her; she playfully
rctreated. A second and third trial was
made. Being seated on the box beside the
driver, nearly, in my dreaming eagerness,
precipitated myself forward upon the horses,
and awoke with an instructive effort TO recov-
er my position. The domes and towers of
Milan just at that moment rose before me,
bathed in the ruddy light OF the dawn and
the rich verdure of the plains on all sides
was glittering with dew. On the right far in
the distance, were the towering Alps, rosy
with the suns first rays, and piercing the lu-
minous blue sky with thousand pinnacle
Not even Austrian despotsm can deprive the
Lombards OF the enjoyment Of suck moments,
though the pleasure must be dashed by the
consciousness that, whatever may be their
physical enjoyments, they still are slaves.
1t forms no part of my design to describe
cities, or churches, or places or pictures. The
guidebooks do that | went, of course, to
the cathedral, and glanced over all its curl
osities. But find nothing about them in
my memory, and therefore shall say nothing.
remember perfectly well that, on entering
Lombardy, my passport was taken from me,
and forwarded to Milan, where ! was told it
would be delivered to me on demand. There
is, of course, no living in any Austrian city
without passport so, the very first morn
ing after my arrival, had no sooner break
tasted than sailed forth in search of the
police-ofhcer, that might obtain official per
mission to breathe the emperor's air. There
are those among my countrymen who like
well enough the present state of things, and
fancy that Italy never was 80 happy as under |
the rule ofthe Teutonic barbariais. For my |
self sighed for the turbulent republics Of
the middle ages and would rather have seen |
a capital in every village, and a frontier in
every parish boundary, and men armed to the
teeth defending them, than have witnessed |
the dead calm which, when passed through |
it, was brooding over Lombardy. It was like
the sleep of death.
As was proceeding towards the police |
Office, met, under the piazza opposite the
cathedral, lady, whose face Immediately
made me forget my errand. She was SO fair
and beautiful took her to be daughter of
the north, and could not resist the temptation
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