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was worthy of love : "He in truth," they say, 7. Faithful to friendships, generous to his very (ipse) foes

8. She, however, unmoved (stupefactus), gives forth no sound.

Exercise 39

Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead, Continued

Stole a maiden from her place,

Lightly to the warrior stept,

Took the face-cloth from his face:
Yet she neither moved nor wept.

Rose a nurse of ninety years,

Set his child upon her knee:

Like a summer tempest came her tears,

"Sweet my child, I live for thee."

HINTS. 1. There slips forth from the midst of the maidens, from her place (nota statione)

2. One and lightly stepping approaches the body;

3. She takes from the rigid countenance the face-cloth (sindon feralis):

4. She, however, is unmoved (torpeo) as before, with tearless (siccus) cheeks.

5. A nurse past (functus) ninety (novem deni) years, arose, 6. (And) she placed upon her knee (dare in gremium) the "the childish pledge of the hero "); child of the hero (literally 7. As a summer rain, the tender tears (sing.) burst forth their fountains,

8. "Dear child, 'tis sweet for me to live for thee."

Exercise 40

The Passage, Uhland

Many a year is in its grave,

Since I crossed this restless wave;

And the evening, fair as ever,

Shines on ruin, rock, and river.

Then in this same boat beside,
Sat two comrades old and tried;
One with all a father's truth,

One with all the fire of youth.

HINTS. 1. Many a year has already passed away from that time,

2. When this water with troubled shoals carried me across; 3. And through the ruined towers and stream and height, 4. Vesper shines with undiminished splendor.

5, 6. Then there were with me two faithful comrades, untarnished souls, whom the same boat carried;

7. The one (hic) a father, no one (haud quisquam) a more faithful defender (autor) of the truth,

8. The other (ille) a boy, glowed with the fire of youth.

HINTS.

Exercise 41

The Passage, Continued

One on earth in silence wrought,
And his grave in silence sought;
But the younger, brighter form
Passed in battle and in storm.

So whene'er I turn mine eye,
Back upon the days gone by,

Saddening thoughts of friends come o'er me,
Friends that closed their course before me.

1. This one having finished (functus) his work in silence while life remained,

2. Sought in his old age (adj.) the tomb (pl.) with its silent death;

3. That one (line 4) bravely scorning the merits of a peaceful age,

4. Wars with their violence (freta, pl.) seized upon. (Ille, in accus. goes in this line.)

5. So when I bring my mind back on these (things) in meditation (part.),

6. (To the) times which the hour in rapid flight has borne away,

7. Many a sad image of my friends come up,

8. Whom I lament at having met (infin.) their fate, while I still lived (abl. absol.).

Exercise 42

The Passage, Continued

But what binds us friend to friend,
But that soul with soul can blend?
Soul-like were those hours of yore;
Let us walk in soul once more.

Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,
Take, I give it willingly;

For invisible to thee,

Spirits twain have crossed with me.

HINTS. 1. What, moreover, is it that binds friend with trusted friend,

2. That (quod) the pious soul can enjoy a kindred soul?
3. As once we went together (with) friendly minds,

4. So again we are pleased (impersonal) to go with kindred spirits.

5. Therefore, come now, boatman, receive a triple fee (naulum),

6. Receive what I give, believe (me), with a willing (libens) hand;

7. It is plain (scilicet), but you know not, with twin shades as comrades (abl. absol.)

8. I have been ferried across these waters in this bark.

Exercise 43

Oft in the Stilly Night, Moore

Oft in the stilly night,

Ere slumber's chain has bound me,

HINTS.

Fond Memory brings the light

Of other days around me.

The smiles, the tears, of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken:

The eyes that shone, now dimmed and gone;
The cheerful hearts now broken.

1. While the night far-and-wide is silent, often to me, before (place ante in this line and quam in the second) with its chains (sing.)

2. Sweet rest has bound (fut. perf.) my senses and lulled them to rest (participle agreeing with "senses "),

3. Fond (sollicitatus) Memory (Mnemosyne) brings back (reparo) with magic sweetness the days that are gone, with eager prayers (sing.).

5. Everything returns, whatsoever I was wont to smile at or weep,

6. And whatsoever as a boy I (was) moved to speak of through love.

7. The eyes seem to gleam (again) which now are bereft of light.

8. The hearts which have gone shine with a new lustre.

HINTS.

Exercise 44

Oft in the Stilly Night, Continued

When I remember all,

The friends so linked together,
I've seen around me fall,

Like leaves in wintry weather;

I feel like one who treads alone
Some banquet hall deserted,

Whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead,
And all but he departed.

1. Ah! how often I recall to mind my old friends,

2. Hearts joined by untarnished faith,

3. Whom I surviving have seen alas (Vae misero) pass away (perf. infin.)

4. As leaves fall, ravished by the winter's blast;

5. I seem in my sorrow (adj.) to wander in a deserted hall, 6. Which lately the festive dance (pl.) made echo;

7. Where the lamps remain without light, the wreaths without odor;

8. And of (de) so many guests, now I (am left) alone.

Exercise 45

Is this a Time to be Gloomy and Sad, Bryant

Is this a time to be gloomy and sad,

When our mother nature laughs around;

When even the deep blue heavens look glad,

And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground?

There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren,
And the gossip of swallows through all the sky;
The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den,
And the wilding bee hums merrily by.

HINTS.

1. Remove the cloud from your brow: why revolve sad (thoughts),

2. Mother. parens; laughs around, beams joyfully on all sides.

3. When the blue (pl.) of the heavens above seem to smile, 4. And the blossoming fields breathe forth gladness for you?

5. The hang-bird (galbulus) and the wren (picus) together (comitans) rejoice from the tree.

6. The swallows (genus hirundineum), a gossipy band, rejoice,

7. The gay squirrel chirps by (ad) his sylvan den,

8. And the wilding (vagus) bee (fem.) goes by (feror) with a merry hum.