The Archive · 1882

Yor the Nineteenth Centenary of

Roman Virgil, thou that singest Then's Totty temples robed la fire, ion falling, Rome arising, wares, and filial, and Dido's pyre lover, lord of lan;

aye, that sang the Works and {All the cheven cota of fancy fleshing out from many a golden phrase Than that ing eat wheat and woodland, tilth snd horse and herd 5 All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word Poot of the hay Tityrus riping underhonth his beechen bowers Poot of thi port satyr how te Inoghing shepherd boon with jowers 5

Chanter of the Polllo, glorying a the blisfal years again to be, Sammera of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless sea Thou that seéet Universal Nature moved by Universal Mind Thou majestic in thy ander at the doubtful doom of human kind Light among the vanished ages abear that plidect yot this plantain shore the shadows, that pass to rise no more; Newiin rary ppl Com the sound for ever of Imperial Romo—

Now the Rome of slaves hath perished, and the Rome of freemen olds her place, I, from out the Northern Island sunder'd once from all the human race, Charity, Messrs,

Mra, R. Goldenburg and SIr. C. Fock, From Hongkong—Mre, Emerson, Mise May Clarke, Mistes (2) Monteiro, Mestre, E, D. Rey, Laporte and G. Efendi, Por str. Shanghai, from Hankow—Rev, my day began, Wislder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man,

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