What God, what Genius did the Pencil move
When K NELLER painted These?
Twas Friendship — warm as Phaebus , kind as Love,
And strong as Hercules .

On a catafalque, draped in black, under bronze cannon, forlorn and white, rigid in death, the corpse of the South is borne to its tomb. With muffled drums, with arms reversed, the veterans gather gaunt and grey, and their close-furled flags, 'neath the sun's pale flash, droop in weary folds to-day.

There is a goddess who walks shrouded by day:
At night she throws her blue veil over the earth.
Men only see her naked glory through the little holes in the veil.

VI

I gazed through the mist:
Was it a goddess I saw?
— The mist silently lifted and showed me — an open tomb.

III

I cry,
Echo answers faintly.
Echo is a poet.

II

Winter, —
Summer's rainbow-mantle of colour fades
Back, once again, to white.

He was a soaring pine-tree,
She an exploring vine.
They met: 'twas the old story;
The creeper choked the pine.

54 Saturday, 22 September 1750

Tu-ne etiam moreris? Ah! quid me linquis, Erasme,
Ante meus quam sit conciliatus amor?
J. C. Scaliger [Epit. in Laude Erasmi ]

Art thou too fall'n? ere anger could subside
And love return, has great Erasmus died?

Summe Pater, quodcunque tuum de corpore Numen
Hoc statuat, precibus Christus adesse velit:
Ingenio parcas, nec sit mihi culpa rogâsse,
Qua solum potero parte, placere tibi.
Nocte, inter 16 et 17 Junii 1783Almighty Father, whatever Thy Divinity decrees concerning this body, may Christ be willing to hear my prayers: spare my mind, and let it not be an offence in me to ask to please Thee with the only faculty with which I can do so.
Night, between 16 and 17 June 1783

Know Thyself
(After the revision and correction of the English Dictionary)When Scaliger after long struggle finally finished his dictionary, thoroughly bored with the slender achievement, indignant at the worthless study and the trouble-some trifles, he groaned in hatred, and prescribed writing dictionaries for condemned criminals, one punishment in place of all other punishments.