Calendar: 1853-1854 Page 329

GENERAL LITERATURE and SCIENCE 325 On which remembrance oft shall dwell With sad delight -dear scenes farewell Even so I've pass'd the fatal line And other suns upon me shine Hut as the home-sick sailor sees 'Mid the waste waves his native trees And thinks the wide-stretch'd watery scene Fair meadows clad in vernal green So oft my fancy turns to view Those forms my livelier moments knew And kindling at delusions vain Believes and hopes them back again Then if court their imaged charms My fever'd soul is up in arms And sickening nature proves at last The passion weak the moment past -Evansilatc into Eatt'n How ignorant had we been of the beauty of Florence of the monuments urns and rarities that yet remain in and near unto old and new Rome so many as it is said will take up year's time to view and afford to each of them but convenient consideration And therefore it is not to be wondered at that so learned and devout Father as St Jerome after his wish to have seen Christ in the flesh and to have heard St Paul preach makes his third wish to have seen Rome in her glory and that glory is not yet all lost for what pleasure is it to see the monu- ments of Livy the choicest of the historians of Tully the best of orators and to see the bay-trees that now grow out of the very tomb of Virgil These to any that love learning must be pleasing But what pleasure is it to devout Christian to see there the humble house in which St Paul was content to dwell and to view the many rich statues that are there made in honour of his memory nay to see the very place in which St Peter and he lie buried together These are in and near to Rome