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. poehy 1a too obvious to acquire mention, so much have than Greek poets mrcotyped the war-Wm 0f love.

_The Greek: were ever acutely aoaseiois of the flectlnl uncl- ity cf beauty and the tender cad- neas of its . Nth!!! 11° more perfect examples of this feeling can be found thlll 1!! W5 anthology. Here are some HD1081 poems of this kind!—

' Wm“, though sweat 8W1‘ v breath as tenfold my"?!- =Waken tonight and hold these

blossoming flowers .Wlthin your arms. for they at ' dawn will fade, Sweet symbol of, your i brief lovely‘h0.l1l'S.-"

youth's

.§'"By Corlntlfs road I P085“! the tomb Where ancient Lais lies within its

. gloom. ~

. one tear I shed, her baautyb

' due. and thus _

I spoke, “Hail, you I never 88W. yet must

In sadness pity. Oh many a young man's heart

5You vexed, but now in Iethes land you dwell

And all your beautys gathered to the dust"

O O O

‘"1119 castanet dancing girl, Axistion.

Who hearing the music of the shrill horned pipe

~Could toss her golden hair. sky-

-‘ ward amoni; The pine trees‘ star-filled branches, she the deep . Drinker of amber. torch-bright wine, has said

Farewell to mystic revels and hcr throng

{Of lovers. and rests on the In" Earth Mother's hill, _

Her holy hair, with death's flow-

‘ ers garlandsd. .

‘Under these quiet elms forever still." ‘

The section of the Anthology on- zitled "Szpulchral Poems" is com- posed of cpitaphs found on tomb- stones or of poems of a similar character to thcse. The Greek tomb was generally a very unostent- atious thing, a small Mod-BIO!" 0! beautiful white marble resting on a simple grave. Hence the true Greek epitaph is remarkable for its simplicity and brevity, as in the foliowingr-“I Broialohlliv. "- Gcrtynian of Crete, lie here, WhBN

-I came not for this end. but to fbradef’, or as in this. "Herc Phili?‘

"pus laid his twelve-yearr-old 50m.

Nlcctelcs, his great b01163’ T7115 simplicity may seem to us. W110 come at the end cf a long Romantic period. as bare and frilid bf"; “If true Greek ever expresses whether he wrote in Greek 01‘ writes now in a‘ modern language. Nowhere else will Y0" find 095"‘ so perfectly expressed. sometimes so beautifully and tenderly that

life itself. This is even stranger when one considers that the ordin- ary Greek had no belief in an afterlife as we know it except l! l -vcry miserable unfeeiing existence among shadows and darkness. The only reason we can give for this is that though knowing the hope- lessness of his future life he dell- berately shut his eyes to its gioomv outlook artd beautifying the death of the dead one in colours bor- rowed from his own imaginative mind found a certain consolation

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and aatisfactlon in that death. The [following are beautiful illustra- tions of time “opitaphsz-

“Time, whose long sickle gath- ers all things in,

Has crumbled iron and stone, an so this mound. ' On which the cold rains pour,

shall some day on ~ ' These pea-worn sands. men scat- tered dust, be found; Only the hero's name young. since time, Prom "what it duos, shall spare the poet's song‘, .

"Your hunting skill, O Pericles,

is carved ‘In white serenity upon my sides;

They are all here, horses and hounds and nets,

But over them the silence of stone abides; ‘

Unharmed the forest creatures round me leap,

Since you so young sleep the un- broken sleep.

O O O

“Homer, the herald of war- riors’ golden deeds,

Lamp of the Muses, whose light shone on the Cheeks

stays

shipcvmcked stranger? Leontichus found thee hercdaad on-tbc beach. and buried thee tomb. weeping for his own uncor- tain_ life: for he also rests not. but travels over the sea like a gull."

Another interesting "fact about these epitapha is the large number devoted to the deaths o1’ pet animals, birds. and even insects, to the magpie. the partridlv. the swal- low. the cat, the dog, the horse, the locust, the ant, and so on. Such Poems in the mouth of a modern poet might sound slightly ridicul- ous .but in the Anthology they hll/c almost as much pathos and beauty as lnything in it. Somehow throulh artificiality they achieved sincerity.

“Within this urn Democrltus in tears;

His cicada has laid; hushed is ach win

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Its delicate songs beneath’ the blue-paved sky

No more through all the sorrow- ing house shall ring”

Another thing to be noticed about these epitaphs is the Creek's love of country or. as I should say, of his own city, for the Greek knew no rather-land save his own self-ruling and selfcontained city. No ancient people travelled mom extensively than the Greeks yet like modem Englishmen none yearned ao much for the familiar surroundings of the ‘place where they were born and where alone

A second sun, the intrepreter of gods.

He through whcme ageless mouth the whole world seeks

For voice, lies here in dust, and all round

Is hushed save for the seals eternal sound."

I Life being to the Greeks the lonly certain hopa they express Igreat pity for those who'were taken from it untimely, for child- ren or young brides. or young mothers in childbirth. The follow- ing are typical:-

“Cleodicus, your golden hair was still

Uncut, but three short years above the hill

‘Illiedmoon her silver chariot had e

And yet your parents grieved be- side your tomb, Knowing in shadowy unknown Acheron

The cold white blossom of your youth shall bloom"

' O O I

"With loves ripe harvest wait- ing to be plucked,

Your tender eyes, Patrophila, have shut;

The magic profiling of your lips.

, your ly-re '

And song are stil‘ed; your wine

cup empty stands.

Thou Hades, too, inflamed with

love's mad fire, Has snatched our lovely friend from out our hands.

The Greek feeling for irony is often expires-ed in the mourning of parents who have survived the deaths of their children, as in this short poem:-

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"On Melitrvs early tomb

Nico, the aged one, has bound the rose

Hades. was this a. righteous doom?"

A great number of the poems are epitaphs on those who were drowned at sea, This brings us to a rather peculiar fact about the Greeks. Although they were the, greatest seafaring people of anci- ent times, with the exception of the Plioenlcians. yet their poets did not love the sea as our English poets do. They did not have our sense of the wonder or beauty of this use- less and monotonous mass of water. To them s. spring of water waa ever beautiful and they wrote dozens of poems describing their loveliness. Not so the ocean. It was never "dear" to them save as a symbol of their sea-girt home. The average of a‘l the epithets applied to it may be summed up in the- word "perfidlous", as in the follow- ing, "And thee too, Clenoridea. homesickness drove to death when thou didst entrust thyself to the wintry blasts of the south wind. That faithless weather stayed thy journey and the wet seas washed out thy lovely youth." To them also shipwreck is a symbol of the un-

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Ona whole book is composed of poems descriptive of dcdications to the different Greek gods. Gener- ally tha Greek would leave k pre- sent in the tempYe of the god or at the foot of his image in a way- side shrine. As a rule the gift was for some imagined kindness done him by I- bartlcular deity but often however- he would leave the Rift o» condition that the god ful- filled his wishes, in which cue he promised to brim? additional and renter glib. In fa~t in one poem the goddess Artemis is even gently but firmly rebuked for her neglig- ence. The dedication: are made by Dccpie from all walks of life-hunt- ters, herdsmen. musicians. lovers, sailors, fishermen, uoldsmiths, victors. at the games. soldiers, and 0W1! by a young boy who has Brown too old for his‘ toys. Often the dedication is composed of the inprremenis of the person's trade or ,_ ‘assion or in the case of a hunter of his spoils, or it may be anything from the rib of a. sea monster to a salt cellar. The follo- wing are typical:-

"Rest, slender spear, upon the long

White column, holy to Panom. phacan Zeus;

Your brazen point is blunt with

age, you too, .

Old shaft. are wearied from the soldier's use.

q O O

"This becchen bough. that like an aged man

Was stooped to earth. the cow- herds on the hill

Have cut. and now beside the road for Pan,

Who guards their herds, it stands, a shining toy,

New reeled of blrk. u; lid his woodland joy."

Of the poems descriptive of works of art many are interest- ing as showing the high place in which the artist .was held by the Greeks. All show the in use ,ap- preciation they had for he beau- ties of the work done by their Brent sculptors. In fact these master-pieces in stone lewd the

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poets of the Anthology to attribute

divine power to their creators. jrhis

is a good example :-

. "Think not that Diodcrus chased

This little Satyr on the cup;

He only lulled him to a. silver sleep;

80m!’ or you shall wake him up"

The Greek of course felt deeply the Intimacy between daily life and art and the. one was as signi- ficant to him as the other. one V917 091110101 Poem expresses this feeling:-

"The golden stars an: quiring in the wast.

And in their measum will I dam; my best,

But in no dance of man,

31in on my head a’ crown of flowers I raise .

Arid strike my sounding lyre in

. pr , For this is life's best plan. And the whole firmament were

wrong Bad it no crown. no song." (J. McKail)

Finally we can not omit men- tioning the Greek sense of hum- flffiil "

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our. Even in the epilepiu it ia not lacking, as in this on a man who died of the gcutz-“Iha that surprises me moat ia that hawho formerly walked with other people's feet managed in one night to run all the way to Hades." As you observe the Greek idea of hum- our was often a bit grim. In fact the Greeks were more like the French than ouraeivaa. ‘lb than wit, even when it was bar-ch and biting. was the spice of life. though hum- our- as expreaaed in fun and joi- lity is scliom to be found in their writings. Shakespeare in their literature would have been a paragon of contradiction. Often thlswit ofthclragivec way to cynicism of the bittemt kind par- ticularPy among the later poetc, who were witnessing the fall of the pagan religion before Christianity.

reading as the bitter-nus of their satire is unrelicved by the alight- est drop of sweet good humour. However there is ‘something magni- ficient in such lines as these of one of the last poet. in the Anthology: —"Whan I am dead mav earth be mingled with fire. It matters not to me. for with me all ia well."

The fo‘lowing illustrate the Greek sense of humour:-

"But two swift cups of. liquor Taken straight have washed from US

Our Erasixcrlus The dean hard drinker."

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Pl-Iere lies limronis. gray-haired soak, Who sponged 'a. sea of wine; Upon her tomb her sign, An Attic cup, is set; She has but one regret, Not that aha left her loving family broke, But that the wine cup isn't wet " O O O

"Look how the wine trips old Anacreon. .

Look at his trailing robe: One shoe is gone,

The gods alone know where's the other, -

While unto his lyre he sings of some young lover;

, Bacchus, for all

His love of thee let not the old

man fall."

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(Canadian Place) BOSTON, Dec. IB-Tbat the

League of Nations is Arravocably committed to halt Mussolini’: in- vasion of Ethiopia was the opiu- ion expressed in an interview with BosmuTranacript by Mica Sarah Wambaugh, who has just returned from the League's Geneva cions.

Technical‘ adviser and aepug

member of the Boar Piebisci

Commission and for many years an authority’ on various European questions, England's self-interest coincided closely with the present trend of 1.088111: activities, but she scoffed at what she said is a frequent al- Mwt o! the“ PM“ mm win‘ lcgation that England controls the

Mica Wambaugh said

League for her own P011051}. "No one preten that England controls Russia," Wambaugh

said. "But Russia is firmly sup- porting the league today. Bo are the Scandinavian countries, but it is self-interest for rather than England's that thiey are following.

all of them any leadership of

"These countries all see their

only hope lies in collective security against that. any one of them might be some other nation's Ethiopia."

aggression. They know

“The fact is that England is ab-

solutely committed to the principle that any action must be League action." she said. As a consequence. sho added, the present must develop either a. war, a sat- isfactory agreement between Italy. Ethiopia and the Ireague, or a complete yielding by Mussolini.

situation

Miss Wambaugh said she saw a

number of posters in Italy a few weeks ago which might be con- strued as threatening to England's African territories. proclaime : “To Whom is East Af- rica? To

one of which

s," "I believe that the Italian pro- threat to

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