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Oh, you are truly like the real Ulysses: "Now toils the hero, trees on trees o'erthrown Fall crackling round him, and the forests groan!" Do you remember, in the Odyssey, when poor Calypso begs him to remain? "Thus spoke Calypso to her god-like guest: 'This shows thee, friend, by old experience taught, And learn'd in all the wiles of human thought, How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
A mighty oak here ruined lies, Its top was wont to kiss the skies, Why is it now o'erthrown? The peasants needed, so they said, Its wood wherewith to build a shed, And so they've cut it down. Not in the crowd of masqueraders gay, Where coxcombs' wit with wondrous splendor flares, And, easier than the Indian's net the prey, The virtue of young beauties snares;
Fat black ash by the altar-stone, Here is the white-foot rain, And the does bring forth in the fields unsown, And none shall affright them again; And the blind walls crumble, unknown, o'erthrown And none shall inhabit again!
'Yet tears to human suffering are due, And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone As fondly we believe. Poor Richard Leyburn! Yet where had the defeat lain? 'Was he happy in his school life? he asked, gently. 'Was teaching what he liked?
From many a proud monastic pile, o'erthrown, Fear-struck, the brooded inmates rushed and fled; The web, that for a thousand years had grown O'er prostrate Europe, in that day of dread Crumbled and fell, as fire dissolves the flaxen thread." Bryant.
With diviner features doth it now arise, seducing by its suffering; and verily! it will yet thank you for o'erthrowing it, ye subverters! This counsel, however, do I counsel to kings and churches, and to all that is weak with age or virtue let yourselves be o'erthrown! That ye may again come to life, and that virtue may come to you!
"Now toils the hero; trees on trees o'erthrown Fall crackling round, and the forests groan; Sudden, full twenty on the plain are strewed, And lopped and lightened of their branchy load. At equal angles these disposed to join, He smoothed and squared them by the rule and line.
Who will in future years believe the tale! The victors of Poictiers and Agincourt, Cressy's bold heroes, routed by a woman? BURGUNDY. That must console us. Not by mortal power, But by the devil have we been o'erthrown! TALBOT. The devil of our own stupidity! How, Burgundy? Do princes quake and fear Before the phantom which appals the vulgar? Credulity is but a sorry cloak For cowardice.
His lifted sword had lopt the gory head, But Rustem, quick, with crafty ardour said: "One moment, hold! what, are our laws unknown? A Chief may fight till he is twice o'erthrown; The second fall, his recreant blood is spilt, These are our laws, avoid the menaced guilt."
Who sees without a groan Thy cities mouldering and thy walls o'erthrown; That where once towered the stately, solemn fane, Now moss-grown ruins strew the ravaged plain; And, unobserved but by the traveller's eye, Proud, vaulted domes in fretted fragments lie; And the fallen column, on the dusty ground, Pale ivy throws its sluggish arms around?
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