Calendar: 1870-1871 Page 498

498 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE Mishap had fatally cut off that way And none may now the Land of Spirits gain Till from its dear-loved tenement of clay Violence or age infirmity and pain Divorce the soul which there full gladly would remain ii Translate into Latin Elegiacs Put forth thy leaf thou lofty plane East wind and frost are safely gone With Zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on Earth air and sun and skies combine To promise all that '8 kind and fair But thou Ο human heart of mine Be still contain thyself and bear II Latin Cranslation Sed primus dies inpetu magis quam veteran exercittu artibus transactns aperti incautique muros subiere cibo vino- que prsegraves In eo certamine pulcherrimum amphitheatr opus sitam extra muros conflagravit sive ab oppugnatoribus incensum dum faces et glandes ac missilem ignem in obsessos jaculantur sive ab obsessis dum retorta ingerunt Municipale vulgus pronum ad suspicionts fraude inlata ignis alimenta ere- didit quibusdam vicinis coloniis invidia et aemulatione quod nulla in Italia moles tam capax f'oret Quocunque casu accidit dum atrociora metuebantur in levi hnbitum reddita securitate tamquam nihil gravius patt potuissent mcerebant Ceterum multo suorum cruore pulsus Csecina et nox parandis operibus adsumpta Vitelliani pluteos cratesque et vineas suffodiendis muris protegendisque oppuanatoribus Othoniani sudes et immensas lapidum ac plumbi aerisque moles perfringendis obru- endisque hostibus expediunt Utrimque pudor utrimquegloria et diversae exhortationes hinc legionum et Germanici exercitus robur inde urbanas militise et prsetoriarum cohortium decus adtollentium illi ut segnem ac desidem et circo ac theatris