The Great Poets of Italy, Together With a Brief Connecting Sketch of Italian Literature
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So by degrees Awe troubles not my heart. And as I hear The wind that rustles through the brake hard by, 1 Martini 299 THE GREAT POETS OF ITAX-Y That fitful Bonnd trith these vaet silences I set me to compare, and so recall Eternity, and the roll of ages dead, And the live present, -with its mad tnrmoil. Thus thought is f onnder'd in immensity, And shipwreck in that ocean 's sw«et to me.l In the " Night Chant of a Nomad Asiatic Shep- herd," the lonely beauty of night leads him to mel- ancholy re...flections on the mystery of human life. What doest thon, O moon, there in the skies ? Tell me, thon silent moon, what doest thou ? As night falls, thou dost rise And go upon thy way, These lonely deserts ever in thy view^ Then sinkest down to rest. .^rt thou not weary yet Of traversing again, and yet again. One everlaatiiig round ? Art thou not sick at heat, Or dost thou still delight, In gazing on these valleys monntain-boiind ? This shepherd's life of mine Is very like to thine. At break of day he rises, leads his flock Across the plains, on, onward, ever on ; Cattle he sees, spring-heads, and grass, and then At eye he lays him down to rest again : No hope for anything beyond has he.
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