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Updated: May 9, 2025
I recited the psalm "Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus," and then after a silent meditation I galloped after my belongings. After half an hour's riding through orchards and grass I came to a wide defile two or three miles long, winding like a serpent, and the sides full of caves. I climbed up to some to describe them to Richard.
Perhaps his story had taken him back to happy days and to Venice. He caught up his clarionet and made plaintive music, playing a Venetian boat-song with something of his lost skill, the skill of the young patrician lover. It was a sort of Super flumina Babylonis. Tears filled my eyes.
The mound before which he knelt was strewn with the spoils of Mr. Meriton's conservatories, and on the weather-worn tablet at its head I read the inscription: IL CONTE SIVIANO DA MILANO. Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus et flevimus.
Between the caution of the court and the prudence of the diplomates, the Polish exiles of distinction lived in Paris in the Biblical solitude of "super flumina Babylonis," or else they haunted a few salons which were the neutral ground of all opinions.
Super flumina Babylonis sedimus!" "Yes, a banquet like that of the convicts," said Tadeo. "A banquet at which we all wear mourning and deliver funeral orations," added Sandoval. "A serenade with the Marseillaise and funeral marches," proposed Isagani.
Then many priests, and bishops, and abbots, who wore white albs and golden copes over them; and they all sang together mournfully, "Propter amnen Babylonis;" and these were three hundred.
Alone in that room, whither he had last come secretly, brought by Beauvouloir to kiss his dying mother, he fancied that she lived again; he spoke to her, he listened to her, he drank from that spring that never faileth, and from which have flowed so many songs like the "Super flumina Babylonis."
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