The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-22
it had no limit-is reached beyond the Taurian

1T had no limit-it reached beyond the Taur1an
shore.
BY keeping me thou hast me not indeed
Thy lberator. thou wilt enslave,
And thou myself no liberty wilt have;
AS long the Greek brother is a slave
am not free myself, not free art thou.
The struggle of fate and free-will is shown.
After long contest Greece reclaimed her own,
by the proves of her chiefs foes could be con-
quered but internal strife, the struggle of the
individual who is unwilling to submit to his
limitations and unable to remove them or to
conquer hisd desire for vengeance, is heard in the
song of the Fates and Furies:
The outer world of man is theirs, the whole;
The inner world is ours, we rule the soul
Within the state of Greece within the Greek;
From them the Fates the guilty deed shall roll,
From US the Furies come revenge to wreak
Iphigenia at length becomes the priestess of a
new order; but unnoticed and unknown she min
giles with the throng at the Delphc festival, and
heard with sorrow, the stories OF illustrious
deeds, for to her they spoke only of revenge, of
towns destroyed and armies smitten. She, be-
lieving that the deed would return to the doer,
that ''the city burned wrath of vengeance
natb, ~ felt that the same work was needed in
Greece that she had accomplished at Tauris.
This child of family over whom fate had
frowned and in whom furies ragged, who had
slain each other, who thought that guilt could
not be forgiven but must be revenged, whose
brother was crazed in it's service felt herself the
thrill of its strange tremor, but only to resist it,
she wove her will into her destiny, and thus be-
came released from the guilt of Tantalus. It
became her mission to teach that forbearance
was better than force and should take the place
of the vengeful spirit Thoas was, by her, made
acquainted with higher law Orestes found his
cure. not in stony idol, but in her, sister Of
tender sympathies.
We further have hint that the gods, being
the highest type attributes of man, are altered
by the change in man.
To be god whom man has truly taught,
TO be spirit into spirit caught;
r. ON him etern ally the transportation
Into man and world is overwrought,
mat he, the god, be one In all mutation.
The new spirit and will of the Greek called
forth new oracles after the fall of Troy. When
Heller resisted the wiles of Aphrodite, that
goddess was no longer the same; instead of being
dsorganizing influence and a betrayer of do
nestle peace she became a power for good
binding and welding the family with a sweet
grace.
In her a new Apollo finds his speech;
Not he who against the Greeks did fight,
But ne who will his faithful people teach
The word of wisdom, and the deed of right.
He hath become the god of inner light,
Transformed from outer sheen of eastern
When back to Hellas turned his glances bris hit,
Another character divine ne
BY taking oHlmhe outer world of fate;
And when the Furies out their breast they cast
Pursuing men more in vef,gefu hate
The Furies, too will cease pursuit at last
The peace and growth that follows renuncia-
ton, and which Tennyson so we'll expresses by
We rise to better things on our dead selves,
is here told by the bard Meonides to Helen:
knew not then the silent spreading doom
Which thee and hung,
That we must march not to, but through the tomb
Return alive once more though old, yet young.
The humanity which was brought from the
north into the Greek world Of art is pictured in
the landing of Thoas, whose gorgeous apparel is
in contrast to the white play of Grecian fold on
fold, but whose welcome speaks the universal
brotherhood Of man and the interdependence
of nations The journey of Iphigenia from
Mycen@ to Aulis is so beautifully descriptive as
to indicate the poets own impression of the
scenery and places, for he loves and has travelled
over Greece.
The poem is full of beautiful thoughts, some
of them clothed in commonplace, which the
author defends as being more forcible than the
also gemmed with beauties as mine eye doth
paint thy picture in its tear" The work Is val
liable for the thought it contains.
Not over Troy chant the loud refrain,
But over our own selves the victory.