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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt:...Hearth-gods in their bosoms carried Forth with ragged babes must roam. Destined bourn more sure and speedy Ne'er awaits thee, wealthy lord, Than the halls of Orcus greedy. Why strive further? 'Neath the sward Opes the realm of prince and pauper, Nor could sly Prometheus' gold Bribe the unrelenting torpor Of Dis' boatman. He can hold Both Tantalides and vainful Tantalus; he frees from woe Hinds dismissed from labors painful, Whether he be called or no. XIX A Dithyramb BACCHUS mid crags remote I found, Whose hymns--give credence, future yearsl--He taught to listening Nymphs around While goat-hooved Fauns pricked up their ears. Evoe! new fears my bosom tear; My pulses, filled with Bacchus, quake; Evoel O spare me, Liber, spare; No more thy potent thyrsus shake. Sing we the Thyiads, tireless still, Rich brooks of milk that thread the leas, The founts of wine, the honeyed rill That oozes from the hollow trees; Sing, too, thy consort's blissful state And starry crown, the wrack abhorred Of Pentheus' palace, and the fate Of mad Lycurgus, Thracia's lord. Thou swervest streams, thou ocean wide, Thou, flushed with wine, in lonely spots Bistonian Maenads' hair hast tied With vipers wreathed in harmless knots. By thee, when impious Giant throng Thy father's lofty kingdom scaled, Was Rhoetus backward dashed along, By lion's claws and fangs assailed. Best known in dance and quip and game, Tho' thought unequal to the might Of battle, still thou wert the same, Whether mid scenes of peace or fight. Thee Cerberus, when he saw thee tricked With golden horn, was pleased to greet By wag of tail, at parting licked With triple tongue thy legs and feet. XX To Maecenas ON neither weak nor vulgar wing Shall I be borne thro' liquid air A two-formed bard, nor shall I cling To earth, b...