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Updated: May 24, 2025
By this time they had gained the gate of the burial-ground. "What fairy tale? what fairy?" asked Lily, speaking quickly. "She was a fairy, though in heathen language she is called a nymph, Egeria. She was the link between men and gods to him she loved; she belongs to the race of gods. True, she, too, may vanish, but she can never die."
The donkey who was to have ended all by dragging the body of Hector round the walls came too late, and this part of the programme did not take place. So much of the entertainment over, preparations are made for dinner. In the grove of Egeria the plates are spread in circles, while all the company sing part-songs and dance.
Atlas may have taken her there because he could discuss single tax more eloquently when he was walking over the entailed estates of the English landed gentry, but I suspect that single tax had taken off its hat, and bowing profoundly to Egeria, had said, "After you, Madam!" and retired to its proper place in the universe; for not even the most blatant economist would affirm that any other problem can be so important as that which confronts a man when he enters that land of Beulah, which is upon the borders of Heaven and within sight of the City of Love.
Egeria leaned against the parapet, the serge of her dress showing white against the background of rock. The hood of her dark blue yachting-cape was slipping off her head, and her eyes were as deep and clear as crystal pools. Presently she began to sing, first, "The Sands o' Dee," then,
But what made the connection still more remarkable was the way in which the parts that were played in it were divided between the two. The man who acts, decides, and achieves; the woman who encourages, applauds, and from a distance inspires: the combination is common enough; but Miss Nightingale was neither an Aspasia nor an Egeria.
It is a most admirable piece of work, and a host of readers will wonder that they had never thought of it before. That is the effect of all wise writing, I suppose, which like yours lays us all under obligation. Why don't you oftener bring us reports of your interviews with Egeria?
Byron, in Childe Harold, Canto IV., thus alludes to Egeria and her grotto: "Here didst thou dwell in this enchanted cover, Egeria! All thy heavenly bosom beating For the far footsteps of thy mortal lover; The purple midnight veiled that mystic meeting With her most starry canopy." Tennyson, also, in his Palace of Art, gives us a glimpse of the royal lover expecting the interview.
You know the cave of Egeria, as men call it, in the valley of the Muses?" "Surely, my Paullus." "I know, I know; but have you ever marked the ground especially around the cave—what opportunities there be for concealment, or the like?"
For this reason new "subjects" have no terror for Egeria and her pupils. Though she has never thought in subjects, she is ready to extend her curriculum in any direction in which she thinks that her children are likely to find interest or profit. The versatility, the mental agility, of the children is as remarkable as their activity.
But the new railway to Bologna having been laid out directly over this ground, the artists have been again driven away, and this year the festa was held, for the first time, in the grove of Egeria, one of the most beautiful spots on the whole Campagna, and here it is to be hoped it will have an abiding rest.
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