The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-19

Alone we Were without spectlng aught;
Oft in perusal paled our cheeks their hue
And oft our eyes each others gances caught;
But one sole passage twas which both o'erthrew.
At reading of the longed-for smile-to be
By such lovers kissing SO much blest,
This dearest-never shalt thou part from me-
His lips to mine, to mine all trembling, pressed.
The writer Gacot with his book;
That day we read no further on" She stopped;
Meanwhile he moaned SO that compassion took
My sense away, and like corse dropped.
THREE CIRCLES OF HE'LL
On the steep margin of a circng row
Of broken rocks, that formed lofty bank,
We came above crueer mass of VICE.
In the deep gulf that steamed forth vapors rank.
To shun the foul excess, drew behind
huge tombs lid wherein these words read:
hold Pope Anasasius here confined
Whom from the ways of truth Photinus led"
Slowly" said Virgil, "must we descend,
That, somewhat first familiar grown thereby
Our hardened sense these fumes may less Offend"
g Yet let no time be therefore lost" said /
Some compensation find for this delay"
Mark then, my son; for thereof was thinking,
Within these rocks" proceeded he to say,
Three circles lay, in due graduation sinking
Resembling those above, but less in size
With condemned spirits crowded are they all;
That whose mere sight hereafter may suffice,
Hear how and wherefore they are held in thrall:
The end of each bad act abhorred of Heaven
Is others wrong, by violence or guile;
That sin is in esteem Of God more vile
Therefore the fraudulent are down more deep,
Suffering the penance of severer woes
The violent the whole first circle keep,
Which three less rounds distinguish and compose,
For man by force three persons may offend;
Himself his God, his neighbour he may wrong
I mean, as clearly thou shalt comprehend,
Them, or whatever doth to them belong
His neighbours person he may violate
BY deadly strokes, by agonizing wounds
May waste or burn or plumber his estate;
Hence the first ring with homicides abounds.
Therein assassins, thieves and plunderers hive
Tormented all, and classed in varied bands
Man, too, himself of being may deprive,
Or on his own goods lay destructive hands.
In the succeeding round all such repent,
Who, in your world, their being dare DESTROY
Who see Gods noble gifts ignobly spent.
Yea, dwell in misery where they should enjoy
Lastly, the Deity is Wronged by them,
Who, in the covert of their secret hearts,
Blaspheme Him. or deny Him. or contemn
Nature, and all the gifts her grace imparts.
Therefore the last division sets its seal
On all that in their hearts gainsay Gods laws;
Cahors and Sodom shall its vengeance feel.
Now, for fraud which every conscience gnaw
This wrong in twofold way man may do
On him who doth, or who doth not confde;
The latter manner it is plain, breaks through
The bond of Love, which Natures hand hath tied.
Hence the next circle hypocrites infest,
Dealers in magic and all bartering knaves;
There simony and robbery have their nest
Panderers and fatterers-all such filthy slaves.
The other mode not only holds in scorn
Loves native instinct, but the acquired good will
Whereof special confidence is born.
Thence, in the least and lowest circle STILL
Where in the center of the world, Dis reigns,
Traitors in flame for eyermore consume"
-Pdrson's Translation Of Dante.
CLAIMS CAsTLE.-The region of Glams is weird
through which the railway engines (Which smoke here
no other part of the word) tear like fire ends Two
men stand grmly either side the castle gate They
sculptured before fig leaves known to art wild
brings you upon open glade where in perfect prese
tion the stately castle of CLAIMS stands CLAIMS is pl
There that smell of aggots in this dist
Take "Burnturk,' for instance. Some unhappy Mos
tasted Puritanic fire down here one day. But Glams
a document saw in the castle, spelled "Glammis."
which has q touch of etanus in the sound The nteri