APPENDIX

“What hath she to do,The virgin daughter, with my Helena!**Its former reasonings nowMy soul foregoes.****For it is not justThat thou shouldst groan, but my affairs go pleasantly,That those of thy house should die, and mine see the light.”

Tal. "What commands respect, and is held highAs wise, is nothing better than the meanOf no repute: for this most potent kingOf all the Grecians, the much honored sonOf Atreus, is enamored with his prize,This frantic raver. I am a poor man,Yet would I not receive her to my bed."

"Dost thou weep,My son? Hast thou a sense of thy ill fate?Why dost thou clasp me with thy hands, why holdMy robes, and shelter thee beneath my wings,Like a young bird? No more my Hector comes,Returning from the tomb; he grasps no moreHis glittering spear, bringing protection to thee."*****"O soft embrace,And to thy mother dear. O fragrant breath!In vain I swathed thy infant limbs, in vain

I gave thee nurture at this breast, and toiled,Wasted with care. If ever, now embrace,Now clasp thy mother; throw thine arms aroundMy neck and join thy cheek, thy lips to mine."

And has another's life as large a scope?It may give due fulfilment to thy hope,And every portal to the unknown may ope.

If, near this other life, thy inmost feelingTrembles with fateful prescience of revealingThe future Deity, time is still concealing.

If thou feel thy whole force drawn more and moreTo launch that other bark on seas without a shore;And no still secret must be kept in store;

If meannesses that dim each temporal deed,The dull decay that mars the fleshly weed,And flower of love that seems to fall and leave no seed—

Hide never the full presence from thy sightOf mutual aims and tasks, ideals bright,Which feed their roots to-day on all this seeming blight.

Twin stars that mutual circle in the heaven,Two parts for spiritual concord given,Twin Sabbaths that inlock the Sacred Seven;

Still looking to the centre for the cause,Mutual light giving to draw out the powers,And learning all the other groups by cognizance of one another's laws:

The parent love the wedded love includes,The one permits the two their mutual moods,The two each other know mid myriad multitudes;

With child-like intellect discerning love,And mutual action energizing love,In myriad forms affiliating love.

A world whose seasons bloom from pole to pole,A force which knows both starting-point and goal,A Home in Heaven,—the Union in the Soul.