BASSARID'S HORN.
(From “The Book of Hercules”.)
“The Book of Hercules,”
here mentioned, is an unfinished epic upon
the subject of the life and death of the great
legendary successor of Prometheus, from which
this song and “The Last of Hercules” (v. Vol. I,
363) are excerpts. Whether it will ever be completed
is “upon the knees of the Gods.”
YOUNG, fair land,
Robe thyself with flowers; arise and shine!
Spring, that holdst the summer in the hollow of thy hand,
Come, for the sweetness of the year is thine.
Amethyst sea,
Blossom and birdsong have burst their winter's graves:
See, in the distance the month of storms doth flee:
Laugh with the lucent sapphire of thy waves.
Soul of man,
Shake off thy sadness, for the Spring is here.
Mark how the meadows have braved the winter's ban;
Glow with the gladness of the newborn year.