Read incessantly thy Burke; that Burke who, nobler

than he of old,

Treateth of the Peer and Peeress, the truly Sublime

and Beautiful:

Likewise study the "creations" of "the Prince of modern Romance;"

Sigh over Leonard the Martyr, and smile on

Pelham the puppy:

Learn how "love is the dram-drinking of ex

istence;"

And how we "invoke, in the Gadara of our still

closets,

The beautiful ghost of the Ideal, with the simple wand of the pen."

Listen how Maltravers and the orphan "forgot all

but love,"

And how Devereux's family chaplain "made and

unmade kings:"

How Eugene Aram, though a thief, a liar, and

a murderer,

Yet, being intellectual, was amongst the noblest of

mankind.

So shalt thou live in a world peopled with heroes

and master-spirits;

And if thou canst not realise the Ideal, thou shalt

at least idealise the Real.

TRANSLATIONS.

LYCIDAS.

YET
ET once more, O ye laurels! and once more

Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,

And with forced fingers rude

Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear,
Compels me to disturb your season due;
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer:
Who would not sing for Lycidas? He knew
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
He must not float upon his watery bier
Unwept, and welter to the parching wind,
Without the meed of some melodious tear.

LYCIDAS.

EN!

! iterum laurus, iterum salvete myrica

Pallentes, nullique hederæ quæ ceditis ævo.

Has venio baccas, quanquam sapor asper acerbis,

Decerptum, quassumque manu folia ipsa proterva,
Maturescentem prævortens improbus annum.

Causa gravis, pia causa, subest, et amara deûm lex;
Nec jam sponte mea vobis rata tempora turbo.
Nam periit Lycidas, periit superante juventa
Imberbis Lycidas, quo non præstantior alter.
Quis cantare super Lycida neget? Ipse quoque artem
Nôrat Apollineam, versumque imponere versu

Non nullo vitreum fas innatet ille feretrum
Flente, voluteturque arentes corpus ad auras,
Indotatum adeo et lacrymæ vocalis egenum.