...and the clouds are lightly curled Bound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. There they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and pray ing hands. But they smile, they find a music, centred in a doleful song, Steaming up, a lamentation,...

...like Gods together, careless ot (mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the (bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the (clouds are lightly curl'd Hound their golden houses, girdled with the (gleaming world: Where they smile in secret, looking over...

...now ? " For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, aud the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses,...fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and preying hands." Is it not so still ? Does the Infinite not dwell apart in His own divine calm? But...

...nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Bound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world...famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery eands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they...

...hiirl'd Far helow them in the valleys, and the clonds sre lightly curl'd Ronnd their golden honses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile...secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plagne and earthqnake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging tights, and flaming towus, and sinking...

...gods the poet speaks when he says :—. ' For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are...flaming towns, and sinking ships and praying hands.' The antient Roman poet Lucretius, in his wellknown poem ' De Rerum Natura," has beautifully interpreted...

...their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.' Wide as these lotus-bred notions had spread, there was something startling, even to those who indulged...

...their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and fraying hands. And praying hands. Oh, my friends, is not the question of all questions for such poor...

...clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world ; Where they smilo in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine,...flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands.' Wide as these lotus-bred notions had spread, there was something startling, even to those who indulged...

...their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague.and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiei ; sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking...