R. Bruce, 1274; Jean Paul Richter, 1763; H. K. White, 1785. MARCH 22. Vandyck, 1599; C. Le Brun, 1619; Rosa Bonheur, 1822. Erelong even this glimpse into the ideal world had vanished; and he felt himself bound to the earth with a hundred invisible threads, by which a hundred urchins were tugging and tormenting him; and it was only with considerable effort, and at intervals, that his mind could soar to the moral dignity of his profession. KAVANAGH. The conflict of the Present and the Past, The ideal and the actual in our life, As on a field of battle held me fast, While this world and the next world were at MONTE CASSINO. strife. MARCH 24. Yet even here, and in the stormy month of March even, there are bright, warm mornings, when we open our windows to inhale the balmy air. The pigeons fly to and fro, and we hear the whirring sound of wings. Old flies crawl out of the cracks, to sun themselves, and think it is summer. They die in their conceit; and so do our hearts within us, when the cold sea-breath comes from the eastHYPERION. ern sea. How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth, and one hand? ANNIE OF THARAW, translated from Simon Dach. It seemed to him as if the unknown tenant of that grave had opened his lips of dust, and spoken to him the words of consolation, which his soul needed, and which no friend had yet spoken. In a moment the anguish of his thoughts was still. HYPERION. Sorely tried and sorely tempted, In the penance of his trial, THE MASQUE OF PANDORA. MARCH 26. Material wealth gives a factitious superiority to the living, but the treasures of intellect give a real superiority to the dead. OUTRE-MER. In their feverish exultations, In their triumph and their yearning, In their passionate pulsations, In their words among the nations, The Promethean fire is burning. PROMETHEUS. |