II. il y en a bien d'autres: there are many more of them

14. 0 muses! ô grâces! In ancient mythology the Muses were the divinities to whom was ascribed the power of inspiring song. Poets and musicians were regarded as their pupils and favorites. In later classic times particular provinces were assigned to the Muses in the departments of literature, science and the fine arts. They were nine in number ; Calliope was the muse of epic poetry, Clio of history, Euterpe of lyric poetry, Melpomene of tragedy, Terpsichore of choral

song and dance, Erato of love poetry, Polyhymnia of sacred poetry, Urania of astronomy, and Thalia of comedy. The Grâces were Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia. Spenser thus describes their office:

" Thèse three on men ail gracions gifts bestow Which deck the body or adorn the mind, To make them lovely or well-favored show ; As comely carriage, entertainment kind, Sweet semblance, friendly offices that bind, And ail the complément of courtesy.

Pas:© 57» I- Les débris d'un temple!: A ruined temple! In Chamberlayne's Pharonnida, published in 1659, appeared thèse lines on a ruined temple of Ceres : —

. . . "With mournful majesty A heap of solitary ruins he Half sepulchred in dust, the bankrupt heir To prodigal antiquity."

Compare Goethe's description with the above, and with the following from The Siège of Corinth, by Byron:

... "A temple in ruin stands, Fashioned by long forgotten hands; Two or three columns, and many a stone, Marble and granité, with grass o'ergrown!"

Page 59* 18. Cumes: a city in Campania in Italy. It was placed on a rocky hill washed by the sea; and the same name is attached to the ruins which lie scattered around its base. Cumae is perhaps mostly indebted for its celebrity to the oracular Sibyl who from the earliest âges is supposed to hâve made her abode in the Cumaean cave, which was connected with a temple and grove sacred to Apollo and Diana. When Aeneas sought the abode of the Sibyl she spoke to him, and closed her prophétie strain with thèse encouraging words which hâve become proverbial :

" Yield not to disaster, but press onward the more bravely."