Sein hoher Gang,

Sein' edle Gestalt,

Seines Mundes Lächeln,

Seiner Augen Gewalt,

Und seiner Rede

Zauberfluss,

Sein Händedruck,

Und ach sein Kuss!

Mein Busen drängt

Sich nach ihm hin :

Ach, dürft' ich fassen

Und halten ihn !

Und küssen ihn,

So wie ich wollt',

An seinen Küssen

Vergehen sollt'!

GOETHE.

βαῖνε μὰν ὤνηρ ἴκελος θέοισι, κὠππάτεσσι πῦρ υποδεδρόμακεν

ἦν φύα θεία, στύμα δ ̓ οἷον ἤνθη μελλιχόμειδον.

ἀ δὲ φώνα φίλτρον ἔμαις ἀκούαις, ὰ δὲ χείρ, ὦ Ζεῦ φίλε, θιγγάνοισα

χεῖρος ὡς θέλγει νόον· ἀλλὰ τοῖς φιλήμασί μ' οἷον

πᾶσαν ἄγρει χάρμα· θέλω δὲ κῆνον

ἐμπλέκην ἴμερτον ἐν ἀγκάλαισιν,

στήθεος δ ̓, ὡς ἐμπεφυυῖ ̓, ἔχεσθαι

ἀμφιβάλοισα

χεῖρας· αἴ κεν μυριάκις κύσαισα καὶ κύνην αὖ μυριάκις λαγοίην. ἆδυ κ' εἴη τὢνδρος ἐμοὶ κύνευντος

πότμον ἐπίσπην.

JOHN B. BURY.

CALIBAN.

ABHORRED slave,

Which any print of goodness wilt not take

Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,

Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour

One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes
With words that made them known. But thy vile

race,

Though thou didst learn, had that in 't which good

natures

Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou

Deservedly confined into this rock,

Who hadst deserved more than a prison.

SHAKSPEARE.

ΑΝΙΑΤΩΣ ΚΑΚΟΣ.

ὦ δοῦλον ἦθος, ὦ καταπτυστὸν κάρα, ἀρετῆς ἄθικτος καὶ κακῶν ἄπληστος ὤν, ἐγὼ δι ̓ οἶκτου μέν σ ̓ ἔχων πάλαι, μόλις λέγειν διδάσκω, νήπιον πεφυκότα,

καθ ̓ ἡμέραν σόφισμά σοι δείξας νέον· θηρὸς δὲ θῆρ ̓ ὄντ ̓ ἐν τρόποις, ὦ βάρβαρε,

ἱέντα κλαγγὰς δυσκρίτους γνώμης ἄτερ, ἔννουν σ ̓ ἔθηκα καὶ λόγων ἐπήβολον.

ἀλλ ̓ ἦν τὸ σὸν γάρ πως ἀπάνθρωπον γένος, καίπερ μαθόντος, οὐχ ὁμιλητὸν βροτοῖς, δόμων πετραίων τῶνδ ̓ ἔσω, μείζω πάθους δεδρακόθ ̓ εἴργω σ', ἀξιωτάτην δίκην.

HASTINGS CROSSLEY.

UTILIUM SAGAX RERUM.

THREE children sliding on the ice,
All on a summer's day,

As it fell out, they all fell in,

The rest they ran away.

Now, had these children been at school,
Or sliding on dry ground,

Ten thousand pounds to one penny,
They had not all been drown'd.

You parents that have children dear,
And eke you that have none,

If you will have them safe abroad,

Pray keep them safe at home.

GAMMER GURTON.