Offspring of Jove, Calliope, once
To the bright Sun, thy hymn of mu
Whom to the child of star-clad He
Euryphaessa, large-eyed nymph, bro
Euryphaessa, the famed sister fair

No trump tells thy virtues’—the gr
With thy dust shall remain unpollu
Till thy foes, by the world and by
Shall pass like a mist from the li
When the storm-cloud that lowers o

Ask not the pallid stranger’s woe,
With beating heart and throbbing b
Whose step is faltering, weak, and
As though the body needed rest.—
Whose ‘wildered eye no object meet

'What art thou, Presumptuous, who
The wreath to mighty poets only du
Even whilst like a forgotten moon
Touch not those leaves which for t
Who wander o’er the Paradise of f

‘Buona notte, buona notte!’—Come
La notte sara buona senza te?
Non dirmi buona notte,—che tu sai,
La notte sa star buona da per se.
Solinga, scura, cupa, senza speme,

Yet, Freedom, yet, thy banner, to
Streams like a thunder-storm again
A glorious people vibrated again
The lightning of the nations: Lib
From heart to heart, from tower to

How eloquent are eyes!
Not the rapt poet’s frenzied lay
When the soul’s wildest feelings s
Can speak so well as they.
How eloquent are eyes!

How swiftly through Heaven’s wide
Bright day’s resplendent colours f
How sweetly does the moonbeam’s gl
With silver tint St. Irvyne’s gla
No cloud along the spangled air,

Melodious Arethusa, o’er my verse
Shed thou once more the spirit of
Who denies verse to Gallus? So, w
Glidest beneath the green and purp
Of Syracusan waters, mayst thou f

And the cloven waters like a chasm
Stood, and received him in its mig
And led him through the deep’€™s u
He went in wonder through the path
Of his great Mother and her humid