HARVARD COLLEGE 113RARY THE BEQUEST OF THEODORE JEWETT EASTMAN 1931 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by ROBERTS BROTHERS, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son. AND ever, as he travelled, he would climb The farthest mountain; yet the heavenly chime, The mighty tolling of the far-off spheres Beating their pathway, never touched his ears. But wheresoe'er he rose the heavens rose, And the far-gazing mountain could disclose Nought but a wider earth; until one height Showed him the ocean stretched in liquid light, And he could hear its multitudinous roar, Its plunge and hiss upon the pebbled shore. Then Jubal silent sat, and touched his lyre no more. He thought," This world is great: but I am weak, And where the sky bends is no solid peak To give me footing; but, instead, this main, Like myriad maddened horses thundering o'er the plain." GEORGE ELIOT. SEA AND SHORE. N° THE DESCENT OF NEPTUNE. From the Iliad of Homer, Book XIII. careless watch the monarch Neptune kept: Wond'ring he viewed the battle where he sat Aloft on wooded Samos' topmost peak, Samos, of Thrace; whence Ida's heights he saw, Beneath the immortal feet of Ocean's Lord Quaked the huge mountain and the shadowy wood. His temple stood, all glittering, all of gold Skimmed o'er the waves; from all the depths below Gambolled around the monsters of the deep, Parted her waves; swift flew the bounding steeds; When to the ships of Greece their Lord they bore. A spacious cave there is, which lies midway Earth-shaking Neptune there his coursers stayed, LORD DERBY. THE DESCENT OF NEPTUNE. From the Iliad of Homer, Book XIII. THE monarch Neptune kept no idle watch; For he in Thracian Samos, dark with woods, Aloft upon the highest summit sat, O'erlooking thence the tumult of the war; |