some holy one looking 

 down from the little 

 shrine upon his 

 charge ; here the 

 Gipsy encampment, 

 there the gay home- 

 stead; anon the great 

 expanse relieved by 

 oases and the fading 

 away into the forest 

 depths of Transyl- 

 vania. 



When the land is 

 snow-bound, swept by 

 the keen, clear, cold 

 air of the white north, 

 and the long winter 

 nights fall, great 

 wood-fires crackle on 

 bare hearthstones ; 

 children and old folk 

 turn to the spinning 

 of silk; the schools 

 take their toll, and 

 virile energies are 

 given over to basket- 

 weaving, reed - plait- 

 ing, and wood-carv- 

 ing, just as when Ho- 

 ratius kept the bridge 

 b}" yellow Tiber "in 

 the brave days of old." 



A LAND OF she;phe;rd 



KINGS 



What may be the 

 psychological keynote 

 of a pastoral and 

 peasant people, shep- 

 herd kings, whose 

 whole corporate na- 

 tional life has been 

 ■one long test of en- 

 durance that in the 

 end has tired out 

 Turk, Teuton, Slav, 

 and even Destiny her- 

 self? A musical, 

 wine - loving, hospit- 

 able race ; warm, gen- 

 erous, and combative ; 

 proud and vain ; 

 blood-brother in tem- 

 perament to the im- 

 pulsive Celt ; dowered 

 like him with the 

 -curse of Reuben, with 



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