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Saxa paries formas verborum ex ordine reddant, 

 Palanteis comites quom monteis inter opacos 

 Quaerimus, et magna disperses voce ciemus. 

 Sex etiam, aut septem loca vidi reddere voces 

 Unam quom jaceres : ita colles collibus ipsis 

 Verba repulsantes iterabant dicta referre. 

 Haec loca capripedes Satyros, Nymphasque tenere 

 Finitimi fingunt, et Faunos esse loquuntur ; 

 Quorum noctivago strepitu, ludoque jocanti 

 Adfirmant volgo taciturna silentia rumpi, 

 Chordarumque sonos fieri, dulceisque querelas, 

 Tibia quas fundit digitis pulsata canentum : 

 Et genus agricolum late sentiscere, quom Pan 

 Pinea semiferi capitis velamina quassans, 

 Unco saepe labro calamos percurrit hianteis, 

 Fistula silvestrem ne cesset fundere musam." 2 



LUCRETIUS, Lib. iv. 1. 576. 



NOTES 



1 " Chance parts the youth from his companions dear, 

 He cries * Who's here ? ' and Echo answers ' Here ; ' 

 He stares around, and for a while stands dumb, 

 Then shouts out 'Come,' and Echo answers 'Come.'" G. W. 



2 " Whence may'st thou solve, ingenuous ! to the world 

 The rise of echoes, formed in desert scenes, 

 Mid rocks, and mountains, mocking every sound, 

 When late we wander through their solemn glooms, 

 And, with loud voice, some lost companion call. 

 And oft re-echoes echo till the peal 

 Rings seven times round ; so rock to rock repels 

 The mimic shout, reiterated close. 



" Here haunt the goat-foot satyrs, and the nymphs, 

 As rustics tell, and fauns whose frolic dance, 

 And midnight revels oft, they say, are heard 

 Breaking the noiseless silence ; while soft strains 

 Melodious issue, and the vocal band 

 Strike to their madrigals the plaintive lyre, 

 Such, feign they, sees the shepherd obvious oft, 

 Led on by Pan, with pine-leaved garland crowned 

 And seven-mouthed reed his laboring lip beneath, 

 Waking the woodland muse with ceaseless song." 



J. MASON GOOD. 



