106 THE REV, F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S., ON 



Whittier's Poetical Works, p. 166 

 The WorMs Convention. 

 " Nor all unmindful, thou, the while, 

 Land of the daik and mystic Nile ! 

 Thy Moslem mei'cy yet may shame 

 All tyrants of a Christian name, 

 When in the shade of Gizeh's pile 

 Or Avheie fiom Abyssinian hills 

 El Gezek's uppei' fountain fills, 

 Or where from mountains of the moon, 

 El Abiau bears his watery boon. 

 Where'er thy lotus blossoms swim. 

 Within their ancient hallowed waters, 

 AVhere'er is heard the Coptic hymn. 

 Or song of Nubia's sable daughters," etc. 



}). 354. Summer hi/ the Lake side. 

 " This western wind hath Lethean powers, 

 Yon noonday cloud nepenthe showers. 

 The lake is white with lotus-iiowei's." 



ADDENDA I. 



Only three of these seven specific names occur in classical Latin, to 

 wit, cyane, cyaneus, cyanus. As in the classics coeruleus is so often used 

 as Latin equivalent of Kvaveos that cyaneus is rarely employed. 



Only three also of the nine scientific terms in connection with nympha 

 occur in classical Latin, to wit, nympha, nymphalis, and nymphoea. 



In classical Greek there are about 30 words compounds of cyanos and 

 cyaneos, and a similar number of words, compounds of pvfj.(f)T). 



But the classical compounds are for the most part not the same as the 

 scientific ditto. 



ADDENDA IL 



His (namelj-, of Horus) is the office assigned to Hermes in Greek 

 mythology, that of Tro/iTiaioy, the escorter, •v|/-u;(d7ro7roj escoiter of souls^ 

 ■\l/^vx<iy<^yos, leader of souls to the nether world into the jiresence of Osiris. 

 He is seated on the flower that his sire Osiris calls into being from 

 the depths of the rivei-'s flood, or he bears it in his hand as an otfering 

 or the departed ones, whose souls he is supposed to conduct, have, 

 as a latest tribute, wreaths of its buds and tendrils twined around their 

 necks in the vague undefined yearning for another life. 



ADDENDA III. 



Epcos or Love dissipating the shades of night. So in the celebrated 

 Parabasis of the chorus of the birds of Aristophanes. " Love with his 

 pinions all glittering with gold is hymned as sj)ringing from the wind 

 egg of Chaos and of Night.'- 



