Feelings had changed: Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from its eminence; Where the lamps quiver With many a light From window and casement, The bleak wind of March In she plunged boldly, Take her up tenderly, Ere her limbs frigidly Smooth, and compose them; Dreadfully staring Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest. Cross her hands humbly 100 As if praying dumbly, Over her breast. A village in France, where the battle was fough in 1590, between Henry of Navarre the Champi Protestantism, and the forces of the Roman Catadio "League." 2A fortified sea-port in France, a stronghold of the Protestants. Appenzell is a double canton in Switzerland, hal Protestant, half Roman Catholic. In this passage it a obvious that the Roman Catholics are meant. Count Philip of Egmont, a foremost man in the Spanish army, who commanded a body of Flemish troops Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, a spy, and agent of Philip II of Spain. Duke of Mayenne, lieutenant-general for the League 7 A commander's staff. 8 Gaspard of Coligni, the great_commander of the Huguenots, was murdered by the Roman Catholics on St. Bartholomew's Eve. The remembrance of that massacre always aroused the opposite party to action. Right well fought all the Frenchmen who fought for France to-day; And many a lordly banner God gave them for a prey. But we of the religion have borne us best in fight; And the good Lord of Rosny14 hath ta'en the cornet white. Our own true Maximilian the cornet white hath ta'en, 55 The cornet white with crosses black, the flag of false Lorraine. Up with it high; unfurl it wide; that all the host may know How God hath humbled the proud house which wrought His Church such woe. Then on the ground, while trumpets sound their loudest point of war, Fling the red shreds, a footcloth meet for Henry of Navarre. 60 Some murmur when their sky is clear, In their great heaven of blue. 1 James II issued a "Declaration of Indulgence," the object of which was to give the Roman Catholics greater power. He ordered it to be read in the churches. Many of the clergy refused to read this "declaration" and the King threatened to put them in the Tower. Among those who refused was Trelawney, Bishop of Bristol, a native of Cornwall. A small, precipitous, and rocky island, crowned by a castle, off the coast of Cornwall. Well, let it take them! What have we to do With Kaikobád the Great, or Kaikhosrú? Let Zál and Rustum3 thunder as they will, 15 Or Hatim call to Supper-heed not you... 1 Edward Fitzgerald, a man of wide and curious bat ing and fastidious taste, held a unique position & the poets of his time. His original productions were and comparatively unimportant; his reputation on his work as a translator, and it rests largely of 2 translation of a single poem. He translated six pay? the Spanish dramatist Calderon; he translated A poems from the Persian, and then, in 1859, he astoun and delighted innumerable readers by his renderg the "quatrains" of Omar Khayyam. While Fitzgera lived a most secluded life, he was the warm friad Tennyson, Thackeray, Spedding, and other eminent 5 Tennyson, in dedicating his Tiresias to "Old Fitr # he calls his life-long friend, declared that he knew, 3} translation in English done "more divinely well that Fitzgerald's Omar. A poem by Omar Khayyam (i. e. Omar, the Ten maker) a Persian poet and astronomer of the 11th a 12th centuries. The title of his most famous poem ret simply to its poetic form. Rubaiyat is the technical name for a quatrain of a certain metrical character. 3 The birthplace of Omar, in the province of Khorasin northern Persia. 4 Jamshyd, Kaikobád, and Kaikhosru, were early Per sian kings in Firdusi's poem Shahnamah, or epic of king Heroes in Firdusi's great epic. Zál is Rustum's father The tragic error of Rustum, who unwittingly kills his s Sohrab, is the theme of Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum... Hátim Tai, a type of oriental generosity. |