But no, no, no-farewell-we part, FROM THE HIGH PRIEST OF APOLLO ΤΟ A VIRGIN OF DELPHI.1 Cum digno digna.-Sulpicia. 'WHO is the maid, with golden hair, Aphelia is the Delphic fair, is well known that, in the ancient temples, when- the oracle of Patara in Lycia, the priestess never This poem requires a little explanation. It Thebes the same mockery was practised; and at ever a reverend priest, like the supposed author could prophesy till an interview with the deity tender inclination towards any fair visitor of the Josephus (lib. xviii. cap. 3), of the Roman matron of the invitation before us, was inspired with a was allowed her. The story which we read in his own powers of persuasion, he had but to pro- trayed in this manner to Mundus, is a singular shrine, and at the same time felt a diffidence in Paulina, whom the priests of Isis, for a bribe, belaim that the god himself was enamoured of her, instance of the impudent excess to which credusleep in the interior of the temple. Many a pious story has been put into the form of a little novel and had signified his divine will that she should lity suffered these impostures to be carried. This husband connived at this divine assignation, and under the name of La Pudicità Schernita, by which his family had been distinguished by the his Opere Scelte, tom. i. I have made my priest even declared himself proud of the selection with the licentious and unfortunate Pallavicino. See deity. In the temple of Jupiter Belus there was here prefer a cave to the temple. a splendid bed for these occasions. In Egyptian Since He, who lights the path of years- For her, for her he quits the skies, There is a cave beneath the steep,1 Tell the imperial God, who reigns Whose towering turrets paint their pride Oh! tell the godhead to confess, 1 The Corycian Cave, which Pausanias mentions. The inhabitants of Parnassus held it sacred to the Corycian nymphs, who were children of the river Plistus Than when in love's unholier prank, A mystery, more divinely warmed Happy the maid, whom Heaven allows Oh, virgin! what a doom is thine! Fly to the cave, Aphelia, fly, There lose the world and wed the sky! WOMAN. AWAY, away-you're all the same, From folly kind, from cunning loth Oh! blot me from the race of men, BALLAD STANZAS. I KNEW by the smoke, that so gracefully curled It was noon, and on flowers that languished around But the woodpecker tapping the hollow beech tree. And Here in this lone little wood,' I exclaimed, 'By the shade of yon sumach, whose red berry dips ΤΟ ΝΟΣΕΙ ΤΑ ΦΙΛΤΑΤΑ.-Euripides. 1803. COME, take the harp-'tis vain to muse All thoughts of ill in hearing thee! Sing to me, Love! though death were near, Nay, nay, in pity, dry that tear, All may be well, be happy yet! Let me but see that snowy arm Once more upon the dear harp lie, Will smile at fate, while thou art nigh! Give me that strain, of mournful touch, As now, alas! they bleed to know! Sweet notes! they tell of former peace, Art thou, too, wretched? yes, thou art; the Red Sea. A VISION OF PHILOSOPHY. "TWAS on the Red Sea coast, at morn, we met "Twas language sweetened into song--such holy sounds When death is nigh! and still, as he unclosed Who mused, amid the mighty cataclysm, O'er his rude tablets of primeval lore,3 Beneath the waters which engulfed the world!- To him who traced upon his typic lyre The diapason of man's mingled frame, And the grand Doric heptachord of Heaven! Which the grave sons of Mochus, many a night describes an extraordinary man whom he had antediluvian knowledge to his posterity.-See Oracles, Cleombrotus, one of the interlocutors, ravages of the deluge, and transmit the secrets of 1 In Plutarch's Essay on the Decline of the substances, in order that they might resist the met with, after long research, upon the banks of the extracts made by Bayle in his article Cham. natural personage appeared to mortals, and con- upon the authority of Berosus, or the impostor versed with them: the rest of his time he passed Annius, and a few more such respectable testiamong the Genii and the Nymphs. Ilept my monies. See Naude's Apologie pour les Grands ερυθραν θαλασσαν εύρον, ανθρώποις ανα παν ετος Hommes, etc., chap. 8, where he takes more νόμασι και δαιμοσί, ώς έφασκε. He spoke in a tous supposition. άπαξ εντυγχανοντα, τάλλα δε συν ταις νύμφαις, trouble than is necessary in refuting this gratui Once in every year this super- The identity of Cham and Zoroaster depends tone not far removed from singing, and when 4 Chamum à posteris hujus artis admirato. ever he opened his lips a fragrance filled the Zoroastrum, seu vivum astrum, propterea fuisse dictum et pro Deo habitum.-Bochart. Geograph. Saer. lib. iv. cap. 1. 5 Orpheus.-Paulinus, in his Hebdomades, his death, imagined that he heard a strain of the Platonists, that man is a diapason, made up 2 The celebrated Janus Dousa, a little before cap. 2, lib. iii., has endeavoured to show, after harmoniam quam paulo ante obitum audire sibi which is his body. Those frequent allusions to of a diatesseron, which is his soul, and a diapente, music, by which the ancient philosophers illus Cham, the son of Noah, is supposed to have trated their sublime theories, must have tended taken with him into the ark the principal doc- very much to elevate the character of the art, and trines of magical, or rather of natural, science, to enrich it with associations of the grandest and which he had inscribed upon some very durable most interesting nature |