LA MORT DU JUIF ERRANT

Page 86. The Death of the Wandering Jew is a lyrical rhapsody by Schubart. The Wandering Jew bas been the thème of poetry and romance, and bas been treated by some of the greatest writers the world bas known. By some the Wandering Jew is regarded as a myth, and classcd with King Arthur, who sleeps at Avalon, and Barbarossa, of Germany, who slumbers under the Raven's Hill, both ready to awaken at the appointed hour. By others it is supposed to indicate the Jewish people scattered throughout the world and nowhere finding a home.

"Tribes of the wandering foot and weary breast, How shall ye flee away and be at rest? The wild dove hath her nest, the fox his cave, Mankind his country — Israël but the grave."

— Byron's Hehrew Mélodies.

I. Carmel: a mountain ridge in Palestine. It is frequently mentioned in the Old Testament, and was the scène of many of the deeds of the two great prophets, Eli j ah and Elisha.

" Now, therefore, send and gather to me ail Israël unto Mount Carmel." — Kings, xviii, 19.

Page 87. I. je ne mourus pas: / did not die.

"The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,

The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,

Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath.

And after many a summer dies the swan.

Me only cruel immortality

Consumes." — Tennyson.

10. Etna: a mountain in Sicily. It is the highest volcano in Europe

22. Sarrasin: Saracen, originally the name of a predatory Arab tribe, which harassed the Roman frontiers, afterwards applied in a broader sensé to the Bédouins. Later the désignation of the Arab followers of Mohammed, who established the great realm of the Caliphs, and finally a name embracing the Moslems in gênerai with whom the mediaeval Christian states were at war, including the enemies encountered in the crusades.

Page 88. 23. Golgotha: the place of the crucifixion of Christ.

24. dont la miséricorde s'étend sur toi comme sur tous les hommes: -dchose mercy extends to tJiee as to ail other men.

" And may thy place to-day be found in peace,

And may thy dwelling be the Holy Mount

Of Zion : through the name of Christ, our Lord."

— Cardinal Newman.