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Page 101
FROM THE SPANISH OF PEDRO DE CASTRO Y A�AYA.
_Las Auroras de Diana_, in which the original of these lines is
contained, is, notwithstanding it was praised by Lope de Vega, one of
the worst of the old Spanish Romances, being a tissue of riddles and
affectations, with now and then a little poem of considerable beauty.
LIFE.
_Where Isar's clay-white rivulets run
Through the dark wood's, like frighted deer._
Close to the city of Munich, in Bavaria, lies the spacious and
beautiful pleasure ground, called the English Garden, in which
these lines were written, originally projected and laid out by our
countryman, Count Rumford, under the auspices of one of the sovereigns
of the country. Winding walks of great extent, pass through close
thickets and groves interspersed with lawns; and streams, diverted
from the river Isar, traverse the grounds swiftly in various
directions, the water of which, stained with the clay of the soil it
has corroded in its descent from the upper country, is frequently of a
turbid white colour.
THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS.
This song refers to the expedition of the Vermonters, commanded
by Ethan Allen, by whom the British fort of Ticonderoga, on Lake
Champlain, was surprised and taken, in May, 1775.
THE CHILD'S FUNERAL.
The incident on which this poem is founded was related to the author
while in Europe, in a letter from an English lady. A child died in the
south of Italy, and when they went to bury it they found it revived
and playing with the flowers which, after the manner of that country,
had been brought to grace its funeral.
THE DEATH OF SCHILLER.
_'Tis said, when Schiller's death drew nigh,
The wish possessed his mighty mind,
To wander forth wherever lie
The homes and haunts of human kind._
Shortly before the death of Schiller, he was seized with a strong
desire to travel in foreign countries, as if his spirit had a
presentiment of its approaching enlargement, and already longed to
expatiate in a wider and more varied sphere of existence.
THE FOUNTAIN.
_The flower
Of Sanguinaria, from whose brittle stem
The red drops fell like blood._
The _Sanguinaria Canadensis_, or blood-root, as it is commonly called,
bears a delicate white flower of a musky scent, the stem of which
breaks easily, and distils a juice of a bright red colour.
THE OLD MAN'S COUNSEL.
_The shad-bush, white with flowers,
Whitened the glens._
The small tree, named by the botanists _Aronia Botyrapium_, is called,
in some parts of our country, the shad-bush, from the circumstance
that it flowers about the time that the shad ascend the rivers in
early spring. Its delicate sprays, covered with white blossoms before
the trees are yet in leaf, have a singularly beautiful appearance in
the woods.
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