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 pure and pious worship of rustic tradition; the faith handed down by the homely elders; with THAT you never broke。  Clean hands and a pure heart; these; with a sacred cake and shining grains of salt; you could offer to the Lares。  It was a benignant religion; uniting old times and new; men living and men long dead and gone; in a kind of service and sacrifice solemn yet familiar。


Te nihil attinet Tentare multa caede bidentium Parvos coronantem marino Rore deos fragilique myrto。

Immunis aram si tetigit manus; Non sumptuosa blandior hostia Mellivit aversos Penates Farre pio et saliente mica; {15}


Farewell; dear Horace; farewell; thou wise and kindly heathen; of mortals the most human; the friend of my friends and of so many generations of men;

Ave atque Vale!



Footnotes:

{1}  I am informed that the Natural History of Young Ladies is attributed; by some writers; to another philosopher; the author of The Art of Pluck。

{2}  Rape of the Lock。

{3}  In Mr。 Hogarth's Caricatura。

{4}  Elwin's Pope; ii。 15。

{5}  〃Poor Pope was always a hand…to…mouth liar。〃Pope; by Leslie Stephen; 139。

{6}  The Greek 'Greek text which cannot be reproduced'; mentioned by Lucian and Theocritus; was the magical weapon of the Australians the turndun。

{7}  Lord Napier and Ettrick points out to me that; unluckily; the tradition is erroneous。  Piers was not executed at all。  William Cockburn suffered in Edinburgh。  But the Border Minstrelsy overrides history。

Criminal Trials in Scotland; by Robert Pitcairn; Esq。  Vol。 i。 part i。 p。 144; A。D。 1530。 17 Jac。  V。

May 16。  William Cokburne of Henderland; convicted (in presence of the King) of high treason committed by him in bringing Alexander Forestare and his son; Englishmen; to the plundering of Archibald Somervile; and for treasonably bringing certain Englishmen to the lands of Glenquhome; and for common theft; common reset of theft; out…putting and in…putting thereof。  Sentence。  For which causes and crimes he has forfeited his life; lands; and goods; movable and immovable; which shall be escheated to the King。  Beheaded。

{8}  〃The Lesson of Jupiter。〃Nineteenth Century; October 1885。

{9}  Mr。 Swinburne's and Mr。 Arnold's diverse views of Byron will be found in the Selections by Mr。 Arnold and in the Nineteenth Century。

{10}  The hills above San Remo; where rose…bushes are planted by the shrines。  Omar desired that his grave might be where the wind would scatter rose…leaves over it。

{11}  Omar was contemporary with the battle of Hastings。

{12} Per mandata Ducis; Rex hic; Heralde; quiescis; Ut custos maneas littoris et pelagi。

{13}  〃Me neither resolute Sparta nor the rich Larissaean plain so enraptures as the fane of echoing Albunea; the headlong Anio; the grove of Tibur; the orchards watered by the wandering rills。〃

{14}  〃They say he put aside from him the pure lips of his wife and his little children; like a man unfree; and with his brave face bowed earthward sternly he waited till with such counsel as never mortal gave he might strengthen the hearts of the Fathers; and through his mourning friends go forth; a hero; into exile。  Yet well he knew what things were being prepared for him at the hands of the tormentors; who; none the less; put aside the kinsmen that barred his path and the people that would fain have delayed his return; passing through their midst as he might have done if; his retainers' weary business ended and the suits adjudged; he were faring to his Venafran lands or to Dorian Tarentum。〃

{15}  〃Thou; Phidyle; hast no need to besiege the gods with slaughter so great of sheep; thou who crownest thy tiny deities with myrtle rare and rosemary。  If but the hand be clean that touches the altar; then richest sacrifice will not more appease the angered Penates than the duteous cake and salt that crackles in the blaze。〃





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