VIRGIL.
" Felix qui potuit rerum cogneseere eau.as, Atque flatus onuses et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibua, strepitumque Aoherontis oval i."
"Bunt lacrymse rerum, et mentem mortalia tangitnt."—Vtnoti.
"HAPPY were he who could attain to know
Causes of things, and underneath his feet Set fear and fate, and the unreturning flow Of all-devouring Acheron." Oh! unmeet Such tearless Stoic calm for thee, the sweet Half-Christian poet of the Pagan age, Whom later times esteemed a wizard sage, And Dante as his guide rejoiced to greet ; Tender as woman, and as childhood pure !
Not thoughts like those shall in his mind endure Who learns aright the lore thy genius brings ; But human sympathy for human woe, And words of thine which tell that "tears must flow, And hearts of men are touched by mortal things."
JObill'IL JOHN MURPHY'.
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