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This having been previously arranged, Silenus's part was to go and demand the oracles as Apollo's child, while those of the priests who were in the plot were to make inquiries and examine carefully into his birth, and at length were to appear convinced of the truth of the story, and show the writings to him, as being really the child of Apollo.
It is perhaps permissible to weary a little of his i's and o's, but we believe we cannot be corrected when we say that Browning is a poet whose grammar will bear scholastic investigation better than that of most of Apollo's children. A word about 'Sordello. One half of 'Sordello, and that, with Mr. Browning's usual ill-luck, the first half, is undoubtedly obscure.
Then it was more possible than today to make finds in that quaint open-air library which, still more than any library housed within governmental or diplomaed walls, is haunted by the spirit of those passionate, dream-led scholars that made the Renaissance, and crowded to those lectures filled with that dangerous new charm which always belongs to the poetic presentation of new knowledge those lectures, "musical as is Apollo's lute," being given up on the hill nearby, by a romantic young priest named Abelard.
"And in regions far Such heroes bring ye forth As those from whom we came; And plant our name Under that star Not known unto our north. "And as there plenty grows Of laurel everywhere Apollo's sacred tree You, it may see, A poet's brows to crown That may sing there."
It never went beyond the range of topics possible to the American or Canadian merchants, professional men, politicians, and saloon-keepers, who form the rank and file of smoking-room society on any Atlantic liner; but the Delphic worshipper never listened to Apollo's oracle with a more rapt devotion than Ford to this intercommunion of souls.
Apollo's nets were wide, and their meshes small; and hardly may one tell what all his fishermen landed: this less for that they cannot be described than because they ought not to be. Enough that the mass were of the sybarites of the world, and of the herds in number vaster and in degree lower devotees of the unmixed sensualism to which the East was almost wholly given.
A bust of Plato presided over the exercises of the School, and "Plato-Skimpole" as Mr. Alcott was once nicknamed made the opening address. I remember how impressively he quoted Milton's lines: How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. Our pièce de résistance was the course of lectures in which Mr. Harris expounded Hegel.
But the picture of the god was only half finished. The figure was sketched in outline. Ariston was rapidly laying on paint with his little brushes. His eyes glowed with Apollo's own fire. His lips were open, and his breath came through them pantingly. "O god of beauty, god of Hellas, god of freedom, help me!" he half whispered while his brush worked. For he had a great plan in his mind.
Homenas then said to us, The law was formerly given to the Jews by Moses, written by God himself. At Delphos, before the portal of Apollo's temple, this sentence, GNOTHI SEAUTON, was found written with a divine hand. And some time after it, EI was also seen, and as divinely written and transmitted from heaven.
Something was pressing on his breast, and he found that it was Apollo's gift. He had forgotten all about it. Delphi seemed beyond the moon, and his errand a child's dream. Then the King, for so he thought of the tall man, spoke "You have done us a service, Islander. The Persian is at our back and front, and there will be no escape for those who stay.
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