, 1877-05-21

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LoNgFELLoW's ITALY.
Poems and Places Treating Of Italy.
ionEcoT sxns as 70 sones q fsa eo,o
r!cs in the world, not excepting
Sparta's ktnutnces, f,ethlchem'e heart
AaIas rancor, Athcns' srt,-
none has had such good poetry written about Il
Homer for what f,c says Of scy!!a, and C'rce,
anil the Jaianl Of Ca!ypso,-which our poet
makes 70 os Sicily and ps: sap Gayp'es1 s1,.n s.ys
here quoted from Bryant's translation. Is in tho
fifth book OF tho OdY.sey dimes .,-73( and is
translated BY bryant in twenty-five lines. all
mos. ,ieserinti1e Of Sicily i, the sncient posts
be doca not 4u0te--t,aniclY, the lines 7l0.Fp
~ the frat book of l.ucretus, where ne praises
Etnle,lovlef, the philosopher. and tnagnlicenily
describes the falanti of hs birth;
fnsula quem tf,gaetris tcrrarunh gssstt To otis+
Guam Ifutsans citcu1n muanle dn}5det.bss ognor*
fonautn gfaacts u<paFgt rfrus 40 0Adh.
This fs pne Ut the places whcrr Lucrttius
shows the same easy sweep Of tmag!natton which
--as III the passage from the flaming OF the
strcw," quoted BY Sir. L,ngtellow tpropos Of
PAQua4 where l4lceHttu 6ay6:
Tell me thy mind, for I have Pisa left
And an to paduA cume: - he fAat fedrta
A shdtIo@ p{ash TO pfunqs MIN n tAs dsep.
And with eatlcty seeks toguehch hta thirst-
Dante nmong Italian Incts had ths same natural
Francesca of ltltninl In byron's TRANSLATION tho
best eyer male ot that passAFcA which Is hero
| quoted under " lt!tn!nt':
Tho lsnd wherc wss born sits BY the sea*
| Upon thAt shvse to which the pa deecehda
| NUh al hts TotioHtrs In ttdrch NJ pedet.
| What could more erandly tcscrihc the dGw Of a
| great river than thisl The next best passage
at,uut this 70 Is the abort snatch from Shnk-
kreare's contemporary, Giles Fletcher, begin
ming:
| 70 down the aItscr streams Eridan,
On tiihtr sids 6an1t.f uifh d nv naI!.
| Thiter thnn 10th siics tho triumphant swan
And r.nss hir d'7Rc, Ind prophcsies bis fa'i.
This felicity Of expression, so common Ia shnk-
/ spuare's tltnc, Ia now unnttainable. 0r aeemsso,
though IL has reappeased In Byron twho Is much
Ionyfcilow hintscli,-bnt IN less degree than
tho Elizn!ethan poets Ind It, Byron eoars CON
stantly above nearly al the modcrns WHO hasc
written about italy, and biz verses are house,
Byru,,, We !lntl here cited the "Chorus ot spis~
its II fl the "Drformc,l Transformed,'' which Is
certainly QUO Of tha beat proofs OF Byton's gen.
!us Tic song i sung in the ai5 {ust oSfotS Tue
aud begins:
| "Fla The morn. hut dim and dark.
| Whittier hlca tho silent lnrk1
Mmtaee shI,aks 11as the ean,oeo sum-
Tho play. In which this song occurs was writ
ten In the Inst years Of byron's l!tc. and was
never finished: It shows very plainly, q does s
"Manffcd,. the lhhaence that ooe.ne sho e1.a
songs In tho "UoioFmcd Transformed = aic n ey,'
lcntly suggcsted by the opening songs IN Sehil-
ler'a "Ntll'am Tell Another passage IN Byron,,
not so well known "A II uuyht 10 1e+ 1a quoted
| hv Mr. 1dtnrfcfnw Under HRoycuna, a,tf-that
beautiful close to the third canto q "Dot'
Juan, "a dctcstable poem, but full OF line
passages;
Sweet hour OF twtlEht!-In the solitude
0f tho pine forest. ana the allent ahors
Rooted where once Tho Adrian ware flowed o'efi
narapiira.c m % cAu; .; sapphv. and nd tn!s staixn. '
satt ,on,f rh,cb raka, thu Win snd melts III,
'''@ hear heart '''''' -"'~ '''
bcm trT teo,u beir swes, fren1s are toru SOAR,
r. r. tI GIIs WI With lava the pIirrin, On hls way.
A. lid fa1 beIs Of yespeE mikes him start.
Seeming 70 nsfp fhs dying days decay
Ah' saret aof"'ao a'fsoM so."t.a'o9 neoa,"'' s
Most Of thIs = translation 1fo1n u!,' nants' gn'
done 60 vel as 10 naxs a, d,1 n9'un. n,.,us oMn
utsered as ef By % oe Of of our QUIZ American poets, wit
Aa tewy rots-lsat falling
loGtely yI,,tls, II IT, ,nn,ss ,.1a; wna
For ihe IHr1td mn o:A.nd;
o. On htgh stsntF beI
S?nsv fotstng aay assa,,aama. -,
! Answer = sssis isp'sin; ;;,..., - =,
i.s u.eMs ns', =, X. ,a.ssMwtth
's, iHM ~ thair ~ III s,n VI, M Cocriee aid
stands IKE yswtres ,;t sda d LS1;o ,S5;
belongs 70 and @ h. a'a1s: s ind s;Te,