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The world I proudly wander o'er, And plume myself and sing I am a man! Whoe'er is more? Then leap on high, and spring! Religion 'twas produced this poem's fire; Perverted also? prithee, don't inquire! What mean the joyous sounds from yonder vine-clad height? What the exulting Evoe? Why glows the cheek? Whom is't that I, with pinions light, Swinging the lofty Thyrsus see?
The other was a half-human hybrid, with hairy legs, horns, and flowing beard, passionate and quick-tempered; with a reed-pipe in his left hand, and waving a crooked staff in his right, he skipped round and round the host, a terror to the women, who let their dishevelled tresses fly abroad as he came, with cries of Evoe the name of their lord, guessed the scouts.
We spend the half, and sometimes more than the half, of our national incomes in sharpening to the finest point our implements of bloodshed, not to the accompaniment of any Bacchic Evoe, but incongruously mumbling the Sermon on the Mount.
"Begin at once," went on the other. "Satisfy the populace; I undertake to appease the bailiff, who will appease monsieur the cardinal." Jupiter breathed once more. "Messeigneurs the bourgeois," he cried, at the top of his lungs to the crowd, which continued to hoot him, "we are going to begin at once." "Evoe Jupiter! Plaudite cives! All hail, Jupiter! Applaud, citizens!" shouted the scholars.
The merry feast soon became a wild orgy; loud cries of Evoe, and tumultuous singing reached the ears of the Magians, who had once more settled down to calculations and discussions over their rolls and tablets. The mother of the youth that had been killed still sat huddled at the foot of the statue of justice, enduring the anguish of listening to these drunken revels with dull resignation.
"Oh!" exclaimed Antinous, joyfully clapping his hands. "Evoe Bacche!" cried Hadrian, tossing up his cup that stood on his table. "You are free till this evening, Mastor, and you my boy, go and talk to Pollux, the sculptor. He shall be our guide and he will provide us with wreaths and some mad disguise. I must see drunken men, I must laugh with the jolliest before I am Caesar again.
Three or four courtesans, with gowns and tunics torn from their white shoulders, were being dragged along, half laughing, half resisting, and wholly possessed by Bacchic frenzy. In front of the company marched a slender youth with dark, curling hair and delicate features. In his hand was a thyrsis, and his eyes blazed with the madness of the wine. "Evoe! evoe!" he shouted. "Comrades!
"Ah, yes!" said Giannozzo Pucci, "lead the last chorus from Poliziano's `Orfeo, that you have found such an excellent measure for, and we will all fall in: "`Ciascum segua, o Bacco, te: Bacco, Bacco, evoe, evoe!" The servant put the lute into Tito's hands, and then said something in an undertone to his master.
Honore; and having thus performed my duties to the world of fashion, I return to the exercise of my rights as a member of the Carnival. At two o'clock all the world meets at the Theatre Ventadour: lions and tigers the whole of our menagerie will be present. Evoe! off we go! roaring and bounding Bacchanal and Saturnal; 'tis agreed that we shall be everything that is low.
Greece and the journey in a thousand ships; a kind of triumphal advance of Bacchus among nymphs and bacchantes crowned with myrtle, vine, and honeysuckle; there will be women in tiger skins harnessed to chariots; flowers, thyrses, garlands, shouts of 'Evoe! music, poetry, and applauding Hellas. All this is well; but we cherish besides more daring projects.
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