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Thus an advantage which no moderns ever have possessed with all the ineffable grandeur of deities was combined all the familiar interest of mortals; and the poet, by preserving the characteristics allotted to each god, might make us feel the associations and sympathies of earth, even when he bore us aloft to the unknown Olympus, or plunged below amid the shades of Orcus.
"That, having drunk it, thou mayst presently land by the dwellings of those below, passing into the sequestered palace of stern Dis, giving thy body to the gibbet and thy spirit to Orcus." Then the young man took the cup offered him, and is said to have made answer as follows: "With this hand, wherewith I cut off thy twin sons, I will take my last taste, yea the draught of the last drink.
"Ev'n the Styx, which ninefold her infoldeth Hems not Ceres' daughter in its flow; But she grasps the apple ever holdeth Her, sad Orcus, down below." SCHILLER, Das Ideal und das Leben. Ever as I sang, the veil was uplifted; ever as I sang, the signs of life grew; till, when the eyes dawned upon me, it was with that sunrise of splendour which my feeble song attempted to re-imbody.
The return of Allobrigius and his tribesmen was celebrated by great rejoicings on the Orcus. The women and old men and boys met them some miles from the village, raising loud cries of welcome and triumph as they returned from their successful campaign against their former oppressors.
But though her voice sounded firm, she herself was not cool and insensible as Orcus which this place, which was filled with the fumes of incense and weighed upon his senses, much resembled for he had felt her fingers tremble under his, and when he went up to her, to help her, her heart beat no less violently and rapidly than his own.
"Behold!" he shouted with a voice of thunder, which stilled the roar of the crowd; "behold how the gods protect the guiltless! The fires of the avenging Orcus burst forth against the false witness of my accusers!"
And first he laces to his feet the shoes of gold that bear him high winging over seas or land as fleet as the gale; then takes the rod wherewith he calls wan souls forth of Orcus, or sends them again to the sad depth of hell, gives sleep and takes it away and unseals dead eyes; in whose strength he courses the winds and swims across the tossing clouds.
But though her voice sounded firm, she herself was not cool and insensible as Orcus which this place, which was filled with the fumes of incense and weighed upon his senses, much resembled for he had felt her fingers tremble under his, and when he went up to her, to help her, her heart beat no less violently and rapidly than his own.
Whether the earliest thinkers identified heart, breath, shadow, with life, or whether they consciously used words of material origin to denote an immaterial conception, of course we do not know. The Roman umbra hovers about the grave, the manes go to Orcus, the spiritus seeks the stars.
There may be a delay, after all, before Parma can be got safely established in London, and Elizabeth in Orcus, and before the blood-tribunal of the Inquisition can substitute its sway for that of the "most noble, wise, and learned United States."
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