IDEM LATINE.

En ubi deserti longe super aequora campi
Desolata patet regio quae lumimis expers
Tota iacet nisi qua flammarum luce maligna
Lurida pallescit, lucetque horrenda per umbras?
Huc pergamus iter, flammaeque tumentis ab aestu
Cedamus volucres; atque hic, si talibus insit
Desertis requies, optata pace potiri,

Colligere infractas turmas curemus, et inde
Consilium demus qua iam ratione repulsi
Plurima damna hosti magis incutiamus, et ipsi
Possimus renovare manus, et vincere casum
Qui nos oppressit tantus, quam sera salutem
Spes dederit, seu qui sit desperantibus ardor.
Talia iactabat vicino verba cubanti
Erecto Satanas superans capite aequora; flamma
Ardebant insueta oculi, cum cetera in altum
Prona patent, longeque immensa mole per undas
Membra effusa iacent: non se maiore gerebat
Mole gigas olim, veterum quem fabula narrat,
Titanem, Terrae sobolem, movisse supremo
Bella Iovi, Briareus qualis, Typhonque, caverna
Quos tenet antiqua Tarsus reprimitque subactos.

R. F. CHOLMELEY.

DARKNESS.

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth

Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went-and came, and brought no day,

The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still,

And nothing stirred within their silent depths;

Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,

And their masts fell down piece-meal: as they dropped

They slept on the abyss without a surge

The waves were dead: the tides were in their grave,

The moon, their mistress, had expired before;
The winds were withered in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perished! Darkness had no need
Of aid from them—she was the Universe.

BYRON.

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TENEBRAE.

Somnia turbabant vigilantem insomnia mentem,

Nec sopor illud erat;' mihi sed lux splendida solis
Disperit aetherii, tunc avia sidera cursu

Vasta per aeterni mundi sine luce vagantur:
Necnon terra gelu et nigra caligine torpet,
Pensilis huc illuc librata per aethera, caecos
Deseruit qua luna polos; Aurora vicissim
Itque reditque, redux noniam praenuntia lucis.
Flumina constiterunt, steterunt maria alta, paludes,
Nil motus agitat chaos atque immane profundum :
Tabescunt lato sine nautis marmore naves;
Putrescit malus sensim, pontoque caducus

Dormit in immoto; vastum sine fluctibus aequor
Stratum morte iacet victrice, aestusque sepulchro ;
Nam periit casu Phoebe regina priori :
Flamina tranquillo pereunt ex aere venti;
Nubila nec superant; noniam velamine opaco
Nox eget; ipsa etenim iam rerum summa Tenebrae.

H. L. CALLENDAR.

SENARII GRAECI.

AUCTORE

R. F. CHOLMELEY.

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