ΤΟ 味糕糕 ******'S PICTURE. 1803. Go then, if she whose shade thou art No more will let thee soothe my painYet tell her, it has cost this heart Some pangs, to give thee back again! Tell her, the smile was not so dear, With which she made thy semblance mine, As bitter is the burning tear, With which I now the gift resign! Oh! many an hour of lonely night, Yes, though my heart was sad the while, Yet go-and could she still restore, As some exchange for taking thee, The tranquil look which first I wore, When her eyes found me wild and free; Could she give back the careless flow, FROM THE GREEK.* I'VE prest her bosom oft and oft; But, as for more-the maid's so coy, When Venus makes her bless me near, * Μάζες χερσιν εχω, στοματι στομα, δε περὶ δειρην Όπω δ' αφρογενειαν όλην ελον αλλ' ετι κάμνων Παρθενον αμφιεπον λεκρον αναινομενην Ήμισυ γαρ Παφίη, το δ' αρ ημισυ δώκεν Αθήνη Αυταρ εγω με στος τηκομαι αμφότερων. FRAGMENT OF A MYTHOLOGICAL HYMN TO LOVE.* BLEST infant of eternity! Before the day-star learn'd to move, Nestling beneath the wings of ancient night, Whose horrors seem'd to smile in shadowing thee! * Love and Psyche are here considered as the active and passive principles of creation, and the universe is supposed to have received its first harmonizing impulse from the nuptial sympathy between these two powers. A marriage is generally the first step in cosmogony. Timæus held Form to be the father, and Matter the mother, of the World; Elion and Berouth, I think, are Sanchoniatho's first spiritual lovers, and Manco-capac and his wife introduced creation amongst the Peruvians. In short, Harlequin seems to have studied cosmogonies, when he said "tutto il mondo è fatto come la nostra famiglia:" No form of beauty sooth'd thine eye, As through the dim expanse it wander'd wide; No kindred spirit caught thy sigh, As o'er the watery waste it lingering died! Unfelt the pulse, unknown the power, Saw Love himself thy absence weeping! But look what glory through the darkness beams! What spirit art thou, moving o'er the tide Of the young godhead's dreams, That mock his hope with fancies strange and wild? Or were his tears, as quick they fell, Collected in so bright a form, Till, kindled by the ardent spell Of his desiring eyes, And all impregnate with his sighs, They spring to life in shape so fair and warm! 'Tis she! Psyche, the first-born spirit of the air To thee, O Love! she turns, On thee her eye-beam burns: |