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But the volumes of poems proper, which appeared between 1864 and his death, Lucretius, Tiresias, the successive instalments of the Idylls, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, Demeter, The Death of Oenone, and perhaps above all the splendid Ballads of 1880, never failed to contain with matter necessarily of varying excellence things altogether incomparable one of the last, the finest and fortunately also the most popular, being the famous "Crossing the Bar," which appeared in his penultimate, but last not posthumous, volume in 1889.
But leaving me, before you pursue your journey home, you must visit the house of Ades, or Death, to consult the shade of Tiresias the Theban prophet; to whom alone, of all the dead, Proserpine, queen of hell, has committed the secret of future events: it is he that must inform you whether you shall ever see again your wife and country."
Proserpine bowed. 'I have a good mind to do it, Tiresias, said Queen Proserpine, as that worthy sage paid his compliments to her at her toilet, at an hour which should have been noon. 'It would be a great compliment, said Tiresias. 'And it is not much out of our way? 'By no means, replied the seer. ''Tis an agreeable half-way house. He lives in good style.
'May it please your Majesty, I make it a rule never to think. I know too much. 'Let us embark immediately! 'Certainly; I would recommend your Majesty to get off at once. Myself and Manto will accompany you, and the cooks. If an order arrive to stay our departure, we can then send back the priests. 'You counsel well, Tiresias. I wish you had not been absent on my arrival.
"Eunice," said he, "has the man come to Tiresias whom thou didst mention yesterday?" "He has, lord." "What is his name?" "Chilo Chilonides." "Who is he?" "A physician, a sage, a soothsayer, who knows how to read people's fates and predict the future." "Has he predicted the future to thee?" Eunice was covered with a blush which gave a rosy color to her ears and her neck even. "Yes, lord."
Then wise Ulysses answered her and said, "Lady, why urge me so insistently to tell? Well, I will speak it out; I will not hide it. Yet your heart will feel no joy; I have no joy myself; for Tiresias bade me go to many a peopled town, bearing in hand a shapely oar, till I should reach the men that know no sea and do not eat food mixed with salt.
'Behold the Stygian mountains, replied Manto. 'Through their centre runs the passage of Night which leads to the regions of Twilight. 'We have, then, far to travel? 'Assuredly it is no easy task to escape from the gloom of Tartarus to the sunbeams of Elysium, remarked Tiresias; 'but the pleasant is generally difficult; let us be grateful that in our instance it is not, as usual, forbidden.
On this head conflicts were unavoidable, and the reminiscences living in the Greek people, of the agency of a Tiresias and Calchas, prove how the Heroic kings experienced not only support and aid, but also opposition and violent protests, from the mouths of the men of prophecy. In Judaea there was exactly the same opposition as elsewhere.
He took pride in rearing thoroughbred horses at Welbeck and had some of them trained by R. Prince at Newmarket. In the course of his career he had the satisfaction of winning the Derby in 1819 with Tiresias.
His vain worldly wisdom suggests to him that Creon would scarcely have asked him to consult Tiresias, nor Tiresias have ventured on denunciations so tremendous, had not the two conspired against him: yet a mysterious awe invades him he presses questions on Creon relative to the murder of Laius, and seems more anxious to acquit himself than accuse another.
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