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Updated: June 13, 2025
But I find that both the Caissa, and the Arcadia, which is taken from a paper in the Guardian, were done, as the author says, at the age of 16 or 17 years, and were saved from the fire in preference to a great many others, because they seemed more correctly versified than the rest. It is, therefore, hardly fair to judge them very strictly.
The Chess Philosophy itself has penetrated every direction of literature. Chess has even its Mythology, Caissa being now, we believe, generally received at the Olympian Feasts.
Of the Palace of Fortune, an Indian tale, the conclusion is unexpected and affecting. The Persian song from Hafez, is one of those pieces that, by a nameless charm, fasten themselves on the memory. In the Caissa, or poem on Chess, he is not minute enough to gratify a lover of the game, and too particular to please one who reads it for the poetry.
Now that the Persian poet has touched his lyre in our pages, we will not at once pass to any cold geographical or analytical realm of our subject, but pause awhile to cull some flowers of song which have sprung up on good English soil, which the feet of Caissa have ever loved to press.
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