| 420 On ithe Name of the Swedish Botanist. [June 1; 
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| Bot Thor unbound his storms, 
| The winds among its branches roar’d, 
i The hail its foliage tore, 
The lightning clawe its heart in twain ; 
Yet still its bark shall live, 
And the green offering pay 
At summer’s shrine; 
‘Though in its mouldering trunk 
The sullen toad abides; — 
‘The death-owl screams aloud. (Hela,) was goddess of death; and guarded 
Wot so the blasted ivy’s bough, the heli-hounds. 
3ts sear and faded leaf ~_ (The reven leads.) A raven decorated the 
Shall sprout no more. Danish banner. 
And heaps on the shuddering shore 
The terrible weight of his waves. 
Surtur with flaming besom sweeps 
‘The swarthy ruin round. 
The giant sisters stalk on iron sole 
Around the groaning palace-walls, 
Bow the tall columns to the dusty 
And crumble age stone. 
Go, blasted ivy, go (Bridge of gods.) Tt -wason the rainbow 
To deck the hearse of death.» that the ghosts of heroes walked to Valhalla. 
No tear thy green restores 3 (Iduna,) the wife of Bragay took charge of ° 
No dew of song restores. the apples of immortality. 
Pale Hela bears thee hence (Tuisko,) the god of discord, presented* 
To worlds below. armor to the heroes on their admission inta 
<c Nat HH tes png @din’s hall. His arm was bitten*off by the 
De Age “oi Se eis tiie wolf Feurise A one-handed idol of this god 
Ae eae puns caer "ig shewn in the library of saint Genevieve at 
Be Sar sae ae Dike Paris by Je name of Hercules Ogmius. 
cé' Te bedce Wathalla’s bowers.””: (Heimdal) kept the gates of Freaviets 
£ (The equal sisters. ) The Valkyrics ‘were 
Edw. My lust is guilty of this chain of gigantic virgins, whose office it was to exe- 
horror. cute the orders of the superior deities. They 
H. Monarch, how wilt thou that this mon-. selected the slain in battle, punished the 
ster die ? guilry, brought the chosen to Walhalla, and 
Edw. Let him escape. My heart is rent . presented mead to the guests of Odin. 
in twain. 
(Dance of May.) The games of Hertha 
Alfather, grant me to devote the rest celebrated at this season are not yet obliterated. 
_ Of this sad life*to actions of atonement. ( The virgiz that unwedded dies,) ‘The Goths 
‘They say the Christian godsallow their priests had these gloomy notions of the fate of those 
To pardon crime, and bind the wounded con- who died unmarried.-See the For Skirnis 
science, in Semund’s Edda 
‘That bends the knee of penitence to heaven. (Lok) was the god of evil: the charlock, a 
Vllsend and ask their aid; for [am wretched. sort of thistle common on barren ground, still 
(Epwarp and Haroip go out separately. -retains hjs name. 
_ Minstrels remain.) (Alfather) is the name attributed to the 
Minstrels sing. supreme god by the northern nations, after 
When on a land of crimes they had learned to separate him from theix 
: Alfather frowns, deified lieroes. 
Black storm-clouds lour above, (O’er Gwyneth.) Pentaskeworth was des 
Flames flash below; stroyed by Caradoc, a prince of Gwyneth whe 
Earth yawns—huge cities sink== rebélled against Edward. 
The steam of guilt ascends— (Surtur) was chief of the deuses, or genii of 
And o’er the widening waste fire, 
Hoarse thunders how’ 
f death. | 
ae phan ane tity To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Shall not Al/ather frown, “ SIR, 
And speak the words of wrath, 1 : KE the jiberty to add afew words 
e The doom that gods fulfill? . to Dr, Smith’s letter in your last Ma- 
He shali—he does, gazine, as a somewhat fuller answer tq 
From world to world your correspondent, p. 128 in the Ma- 
’ The awful sentence rolls. 
gazine for March. 
From cleaving skies the gods descend ; It is a wise maxim, not to speak before 
‘The shades oF mighty dead 
ia ie ka a we think; and one equally wise, not. 
Beis Fo aegnetinndalt i to assert a fact for which there is not 
'The father of slaughter has roar’d, ett? proof. Be ee 
find shaken oer Gwyneth his shield ; seems little acquainted with the several . 
‘From her blue mountains pour volumes published by the illustrions 
The bands ef war. 
Wo living soul escapes. 
‘Wuge Nierd bas heard in the deen, 
Swede himself, or he would not have ha-_ 
garded the assertion that he had discarded 
the word Linngus and adopted a Linné, | 
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