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o’er ocean to see his dear ones in the sacred laurel* * * § grove ;f and 
Mr. Ruskin, in a grand passage, exclaims : — “ The poor Greeks 
of the great ages expected no reward from heaven but honour, 
and no reward from earth but rest ; though, when on these 
conditions, they patiently and proudly fulfilled their task of 
the granted day, an unreasoning instinct of an immortal 
benediction broke from their lips in song ; and they, even 
they, had sometimes a prophet J to tell them of a land 
f where there is sun alike by day, and alike by night, where they 
shall need no more to trouble the earth by strength of hands 
for daily bread, but the ocean breezes blow around the blessed 
islands, and golden flowers burn on their bright trees for ever- 
more. - ’ ;; § And such is “ HoddmimiPs Holt/’|| which flame 
and tempest cannot touch. 
A new earth rises in fresh beauty ; the Aesir meet again, 
speak of the wondrous things of yore, and reign in peaceful 
splendour. And the Vala, in her prophecy, exclaims : — 
“ She sees arise. 
Earth from ocean, 
Unsown shall 
All evil be amended. 
She a hall sees standing, 
With gold bedecked, 
There shall the righteous 
And for evermore 
A second time, 
Beauteously green. 
The fields bring forth. 
Than the sun brighter, 
In Gimil : 
People dwell, 
Happiness enjoy 
Then follows the stanza beginning, “ Then comes the mighty 
one/ ; already quoted.** And such, according to the Eddas } is 
the glorious destiny of the righteous. 
* I.e. “bright” grove. “The dawn was called Sd(pvr), the burning, so 
was the laurel, as wood that burns easily ” (Prof. Max Muller, Lectures on the 
Science of Language , ii. 549, note ; vide The Great Dionysiak Myth, ii. 26. 
In voc . Philodaphnos, an epithet of the solar divinities Apollon and Dionysos). 
t Vide Zoroaster, p. 28, note 1. 
X Pindar, Olymp. ii. ; cf. Od. iv. 563, et seq.: — “The deathless gods will 
convey thee to the Elysian plain and the world’s end, where is Rhadamanthos 
[the Egyptian Rhot-amenti, i.e., “ Judge- of-the-Hidden- World,” a title of 
Osiris-Dionysos] of the fair hair [cf. Dionysos Chrysokomes], where life is 
easiest for men. No snow [Hrym and the Frost-giants] is there, nor yet 
great storm [the Midhgardhsormr] nor any rain ” (apud Butcher and 
Lang). 
§ The Queen of the Air, i. 50. 
^[ Voluspa, 57, 60, 62. 
|| Vafthrudnismal , 45. 
** Sup. sec. 11. 
