4. And brings them to heaven, sweet presents for God.

5. “These buds (line 6),” says the reaper smiling, “which are gayly (adj.) unfolding;

6. Must be duly gathered for my Lord;

7. Gladly, forsooth, will He see such tokens (monumentum) of earth,

8. Where He himself once lived a little child."

Exercise 53

The Reaper and the Flowers, Continued

"They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted by my care;

And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred emblems wear."

HINTS.

And the mother gave in tears and pain,
The flowers she most did love;

She knew she would find them all again
In the fields of light above.

O not in cruelty, nor in wrath
The reaper came that day;

'Twas an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away.

1. Of light (pellucens, adj.)

2. Which my care shall have transplanted to that soil; 3. And the happy choirs shall wear (line 4) woven (intersita, n. pl.) (among) their garments (accus.) white

4. Many a wreath of (ex) the sacred flowers.

5. The mother (line 6) heard and with tears and pain (cf. Aeneid I, 228),

6. Herself gave up her treasures (deliciae);

7. She gave them up and she said: "The flowers which now we lose

8. The fields of light will restore to us hereafter (postmodo)."

9. Believe (me), not in cruelty (crudele movens) nor stirred by wrath,

10. Had the reaper come to these fields that day;

11. But a good angel (incola) of heaven gliding down to the green earth (dat.)

12. Bore away the flowers to be (futurus) gifts pleasing to God.

Exercise 54

The Destruction of Sennacherib, Byron

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when summer hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. HINTS. 1. The Assyrian rushes down (irruo) as a wolf attacks (insto) the sheepfold,

2. His cohort (is) bright in its purple and golden vesture ; 3, 4. And as (ritu) the stars which the rolling blue water of Palestine reflects, the many spears shone ;

5. As (Haud secus ac) the forest (arbor, sing.) is radiant (rideo) in its summer foliage,

6. The standards of the innumerable host gleamed in the twilight;

7. As (cf. line 5) the leaves perish in the wintry blast,

8. The stricken host (mortua membra) in the morning covers the broad field.

Exercise 55

The Destruction of Sennacherib, Continued

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;

And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved and forever grew still.

And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,

But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,

And cold as the spray on the rock-beating surf.

HINTS. 1. For the angel of death (fatalis, adj.) spread his dark wings,

2. And breathes into all their faces a deadly pest;

3. The eyes heavy with deep sleep soon grow chill,

4. A rest scarcely broken by a groan overwhelms their hearts.

5. Nor does the steed (line 6) with spreading nostril draw in the refreshing breeze (flamen),

6. Nor press on (premo) exulting and champing his bit (frenum, pl.),

7. And the foam from his panting lungs (sing.), flowing along the turf,

8. Is white as the wave beaten back on the cliffs of the sea.

Exercise 56

The Destruction of Sennacherib, Continued

And there lay the rider, distorted and pale;

With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,

The lances uplifted, the trumpet unblown.

And the widows of Assur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.

HINTS. 1. Here lies the horseman, pale (and) with distorted countenance,

2. His weapons with rust, his brow (tempora) with the cold dew is moist :

3. The tents (castra) are silent, (and) the banners float through the solitary air;

4. Neither does the trumpet nor the heavy spear give forth its accustomed sound.

5. The grief of the widows resounds (through) the Assyrian cities,

6. And the god Baal falls in the ancient temple;

7. But He had not used the sword (pl.); the mighty army 8. Melted away in the sight of God as snow by fire.

Exercise 57

Know Ye the Land, Byron

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle

Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?

Know ye the land of the cedar and vine,

Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine; Where the light wings of zephyrs, oppressed with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul1 in her bloom; Where citron and olive are fairest of fruit,

And the voice of the nightingale never is mute;

HINTS. 1. Know ye what land mingles (indicative) the myrtle (pl.) with the cypress (pl.),

2. A sign (i.e. " for a sign ") of what sort of deeds (are) the people's?

3. Where rage like (ritu) the vulture's or love (line 4) of the turtle-dove,

4. Breaks forth with grief or rages unmeasured (sine more) ?

5. Know ye the land (iugum, pl.) joyful, far and wide (one word), in the cedar, (and) joyful in the vine (Lyaeus),

1 Gul means a rose.

6. Where there (is) perpetual sunshine with perpetual flowers (sing.),

7, 8. Where Gul (Rosa) in the springtime (adj.) delays with her perfume the flight of the west wind wandering with light wings through the pleasant gardens;

9. Where the citron and olive are a glory to the trees of the forest,

10. And thy voice, Philomela, is never (non unquam) mute.

Exercise 58

Know Ye the Land, Continued

Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky,

In color though varied, in beauty may vie,

And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye;

Where virgins are soft as the roses they twine;

And all save the spirit of man is divine?

'Tis the clime of the East; 'tis the land of the sun — Can he smile on such deeds as his children have done?

Oh! wild as the accents of lovers' farewell,

Are the hearts which they bear and the tales which they tell.

HINTS. 1. Where though there be one color for earth (pl.) and another for the sky,

2. Both strive to merit the greater glory,

3. Is deepest in dye (blushes deepest, clarissimus); add "and where" from line 4.

4. The maiden twines roses, herself more soft than the rose; 5, 6. And unless you except the fervent and strong minds of men alone, all (pl.) (is) divine (plenus Deo)?

7. 'Tis the land of the orient (adj.); that (land) most pleasing to Phoebus,

8. Does he look approvingly (blandior) at the deeds of his people?

9, 10. Alas! as the frenzied farewell (vox ultima) of lovers, dread is the (thought) which they revolve in their hearts (sing.) or which they are accustomed to tell.