EXERCISE XLI. (Gray). Low the dauntless Earl is laid, Gored with many a gaping wound; Soon a King shall bite the ground. Long his loss shall Erin weep, Horror covers all the heath; Clouds of carnage blot the sun : Sisters, cease: the work is done! Stanza 1. 1. "Dauntless," expand this word. Stanza II. 1. Erin, "Hibernia."-2. To her seeking [him] none like him (par) will be likely-to-return.-4. Cf. Part I. Exercise XLVI. line 4; and see Poet. Orn. 2. Stanza III. 1. Covers, "ingruo super."-3. Cf. Part I. Exercise LXXXIV. line 1; and see Poet. Orn. ¿ 2. EXERCISE XLII. (Goldsmith). Turn, gentle Hermit of the dale, For here forlorn and lost I tread, "Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, Stanza I. 1. Hermit, "venerabilis incola saltûs.”—3, 4. Guide me to where the friendly light which gives its tiny ray afar illumines the vale and the gloomy shades.-The order of the words will have to be altered considerably. Stanza II. 3, 4. Where wilds seem to grow with boundless tracts, and there is no end (meta) nor any limit to my wandering. Stanza III. Hermit, "senior."-2. "Dangerous gloom," dangers of the nightly journey.-4. It lures thee on only (non nisi, Part I. Exercise V. line 3) with fatal craft. EXERCISE XLIII. (Broome). Queen of fragrance, lovely Rose, 5 Are clothed with green, or swell'd with buds. 10 Queen of fragrance, lovely Rose ! 66 1. Queen of fragrance, rerum suavissima."-2. Beauties, "quidquid honoris habent." Aids 1. h.-6. Rejoices that Spring has revived (reparo) sunny days.-7. The dew sparkles, &c.-8. Waste of flowers, "florum copia hìc illìc."-11, 12. Lovely rose, why dost thou delay? Queen of fragrance, disclose for me, disclose at my prayer (vocata) thy beauties. (Poet. Orn. §. 2.) EXERCISE XLIV. (Bp. Heber). God, who madest Earth and Heaven, Who the day for toil hast given, May Thine angel-guards defend us, 5 1. Who madest (creator).—Use "pariter-pariter." See Part I. Exercise IX. Stanza 1. 3.-2. Whom light and darkness own as their author (pater).-5. Angel. See Part I. Exercise LXX. note.-6. Let kindly rest be with us (comes) under Thy blessing (auspice te).—8. Cf. Ovid, Am. i. 6. 24, "Tempora noctis eunt." EXERCISE XLV. (same continued). Guard us waking, guard us sleeping; May we in Thy mighty keeping All peaceful lie : When the last dread call shall wake us But to reign in glory take us With Thee on high. 1. Make two verses of this line. Expand "guard” into “curâ præsidioque fove," for the Pentameter; and make the Hexameter by expanding into whether we wake.' Cf. Part II. Exercise XIV. line 3, &c., &c.-5. See Poet. Orn. e.-6. See Aids 1. c. -8. To reign, &c., [As] the partners and sharers of Thy kingdom. This will make the Pentameter. EXERCISE XLVI. (Sir W. Davenant). Roses and pinks will be strewn where you go; My rose of youth is gone, And lest virgins forsaken Should perhaps be mistaken In seeking my grave, alas! let them know I lie near a shade of willow, willow! 5 10 15 3, 4. This one thing grant me (exsequor), thou who hast been the cause of my death, lay my limbs in the spot I have enjoined.-5, 6. "Neglected lovers." See Part I. Exercise V. line 1, note.-7. Clerk, "sacerdos."-8. "melos exsequiale." 11. "Si quis," or "quisquis amas.' Cf. "Quisquis amas, scabris hoc bustum cædite saxis," Propert. iv. 5. 75.-12. "Beauty and Love." see Aids 1. h.- -13-15. From " and lest-my grave," to make two lines.-15, 16. Hear my warning, ye virgin bands; the drooping willow o'ershadows my resting-place (cubile). Το EXERCISE XLVII. yon fause stream that, near the sea, Hides mony an elf and plum, And rives wi' fearful din the stanes, A witless knight did come. The day shines clear-far in he's gane An' sparklin' to the light. When, as he lav'd, sounds came sae sweet Frae ilka rock and tree; The brief was out-'twas him it doom'd The mermaid's face to see. Glossary. "Plum," a deep hole.-" witless," ignorant of his destiny.-"ilka," every.-" the brief was out," the sentence, or doom, had gone forth. Stanza 1. 2. There is a place where (est ubi) a stream flows into the sea with treacherous course, the deep water hides many mermen. Cf. Virg. Æn. v. 824," Tritonesque citi, Phorcique exercitus omnis." Stanza II. 1. Far in, &c.-"ruit urinator in undas.""urinator," a diver.-3, 4. Poet. Orn. κ.-" Were leaping." Aids I. a. Stanza III. 1, 2. Break up the English:-freely thus; Sweet sounds were heard; the rocks and trees (nemus) repeat the sweet sounds. Poet. Orn. . 2.-3, 4. Fate's inevitable decree had gone forth: he was to behold (intueor) the mermaid's face.-" inevitable." Aids II. 1. EXERCISE XLVIII. (same continued). Frae 'neath a rock, soon, soon she rose Stopp'd i' the midst, an' beck'd, an' sang Gowden glist the yellow links That round her neck she'd twine; Her e'en were o' the skyie blue, Her lips did mock the wine. |