Calendar: 1864-1865 Page 531

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 533 Their ingenuity always on the stretch and sharpened by emula- tion as well as necessity has struck out many inventions which greatly facilitate success in the chase The most singular of these is the discovery of poison in which they dip the arrows employed in hunting The slightest wound with those enve- nomed shafts is mortal If they only pierce the skin the blood fixes and congeals in moment and the strongest animal falls motionless to the ground Nor does this poison notwithstanding its violence and subtlety infect the flesh of the animal which it kills That may be eaten with perfect safety and retains its native relish and qualities II -CranSlate into Latin Elegiatji There's bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream And the nightingale sings round it all the day long In the time of my childhood 'twas like sweet dream To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song That bower and its roses never forget But oft when alone in the bloom of the year think -is the nightingale singing there yet Are the roses still bright by the calm Bendemeer No the roses soon wither'd that hung o'er the wave But some blossoms were gather'd while freshly they shone And dew was distill'd from the flowers that gave All the fragrance of summer when summer was gone Thus memory draws from delight 'ere it dies An essence that breathes of it many year Thus bright to my soul as 'twas then to my eyes Is that bower on the banks of the calm Bendemeer III -CranSlate into Latin cyamttni Nor was his name unheard or unador'd In ancient Greece and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber and how he fell From heaven they fabled thrown by angry Jove