146 THE REV. W. YATES' ESSAY 



O immortals ; the loell armedj bold, glorious and tvarlike enemy does not tremble at our 

 prowess. What fine, well mailed, broad chested, bold man, is acting the hero, unmoved in the loud 

 resounding battle ? 



The following, written over the holy water in one of the churches in 

 Paris, is a specimen of the kind in Greek ; with this difference, that the 

 whole reads the same backwards and forwards, and has the same meaning 

 both ways — n-^ov oLvo^niJ^oc lAomv o4"f — (wash your sins and not merely your 

 face.) 



The following is a specimen of the same kind in Latin. 



Roma tibi subito, motibus ibit amor. 

 Sole medere pede, ede, percde melos. 



There are instances of a like nature in Sanscrit. The following stanza 

 reads the same backwards and forwards, and has the same meaning both 

 ways. 



Is not this a beautiful woman, whose gait is like that of a large elephant ? She is adorned 

 with her necklace, is gone into the grove, and let her lover follow. 



8. — The eighth order is ^T'f T^^'^*. In this every pdda must be the 

 same, and also every part of every pdda ; so that the same letters must be 

 reiterated as many times as the nature of the verse requires, to fill up the 

 whole stanza. There may of course be many kinds of this, arising from the 

 number of syllables fixed upon for repetition, and the metre employed. 



As the words or syllables repeated must occur in a different sense 

 every time they are repeated, it is difficult to find such as can be reiterated 

 through a whole stanza, and yet make good sense. The following is given 

 as a specimen of this kind of composition, for the explanation of which I am 



* This terra is applied by some writers to the next order. 



