Calendar: 1868-1869 Page 493

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 495 IV -Cranslate into rcefe $k0£it The deity who represented the Sun-god-the giver of life and heat the cause of plenty and fertility-was the earliest object of poetical worship When the shortest days of winter were just passing away hymns of joy and welcome were sung in his honour in token that the days were lengthening and the brighter seasons of spring and summer approaching Again little later the same god under the name of Apollo was celebrated in the hymn Ie Paean ίή Τίαιήον and the approach of the vernal equinox when nature began to look gay and smiling was hailed with spring paeans elapivoi παιάνα Such were the hymns the burden of which was distinguished by ϊή the cry of joy but there were others distinguished by the burden at At'vf alas Linus the subject of which was sad and melancholy As the songs of joy were sung in honour of reviving nature so these laments symbolized the withering and perishing of nature's life and vigour Write an account in Greek prose or verse of Pericles Translate into Greek Iambics If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work But when they seldom come they wish'd-for come And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents So when this loose behaviour throw off And pay the debt never promised By how much better than my word am By so much shall falsify men's hopes And like bright metal on sullen ground My reformation glittering o'er my fault Shall shew more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off I'll so offend to make offence skill Redeeming time when men think least wilL