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GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 31 That they were officers of mark and pretension is unquesiion- able and Crawfwrd more so than Picton because the latter never had separate command and his opportunities were necessarily nore circumscribed but to compare either to the Duke of Wellington displays ignorance of the men and of the art they professed -Napier's Peninsular War VI -Ci'anjJlate into Eatw £legtac£ Stranger thott art standing now On Colonos' sparry brow All the haunts of Attic ground Where the matchless coursers bound Boast not through their realms of bliss Other spot as fair as this Frequent down this greenwood dale Mourns the warbling nightingale Nestling mid the thickest screen Of the ivy's darksome green Or where each empurpled shoot Drooping with its myriad fruit Curled in many mazy twine Blooms the never-trodden vine By the gods' protecting power Safe from sun and storm and shower Bacchus here the summer long Revels with the goddess throng Nymphs who erst on Nyssa's wild Reared to man the rosy child Here Narcissus day by day Buds in clustering beauty gay Sipping aye at morn and even All the nectar-dews of heaven Wont amid your locks to shine Ceres fair and Proserpine Quote from ancient and modern authors descriptions of the Nightingale