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FOOTNOTE:
[30] By Walt Whitman, an American poet (1819-1892).
FOOTNOTE:
[31] By Abraham Lincoln, at the dedication of the National Cemetery, 1863.
ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD [32]
Sleep sweetly in your humble
graves,
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column
craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
FOOTNOTE:
[33] Translated from the "Electra" of Sophocles, written about 450 years before
Christ. The narrative is supposed to have been related by the friend and attendant
of the hero, Orestes.
THE COLISEUM AT MIDNIGHT [34]
I crossed the Forum to the foot of the Palatine, and, ascending the Via Sacra,
passed beneath the Arch of Titus. From this point I saw below me the gigantic
outline of the Coliseum, like a cloud resting upon the earth.
As I descended the hillside, it grew more broad and high,—more definite in its
form, and yet more grand in its dimensions,—till, from the vale in which it
stands encompassed by three of the Seven Hills of Rome, the majestic ruin in
all its solitary grandeur "swelled vast to heaven."
A single sentinel was pacing to and fro beneath the arched gateway which
leads to the interior, and his measured footsteps were the only sound that
broke the breathless silence of night.
What a contrast with the scene which that same midnight hour presented,
when in Domitian's time the eager populace began to gather at the gates,
impatient for the morning sports! Nor was the contrast within less striking.
Silence, and the quiet moonbeams, and the broad, deep shadow of the ruined
wall!
Where now were the senators of Rome, her matrons, and her virgins? Where
was the ferocious populace that rent the air with shouts, when, in the
hundred holidays that marked the dedication of this imperial slaughter house,
five thousand wild beasts from the Libyan deserts and the forests of Anatolia
made the arena sick with blood?
Where were the Christian martyrs that died with prayers upon their lips, amid
the jeers and imprecations of their fellow men? Where were the barbarian
gladiators, brought forth to the festival of blood, and "butchered to make a
Roman holiday"?
The awful silence answered, "They are mine!" The dust beneath me
answered, "They are mine!"
FOOTNOTE:
[34] From "Outre Mer," by Henry W. Longfellow.
Expression: Learn all you can about the Coliseum. When was it
built? by whom? For what was it used?
Word Study: Forum, Palatine, Via Sacra, Titus, Domitian, Libyan,
Anatolia.
THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE [35]
Have you heard of the wonderful
one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical
way
It ran a hundred years to a day,
And then, of a sudden, it—ah, but
stay,
I'll tell you what happened,
without delay,
Scaring the parson into fits,
Frightening people out of their
wits,—
Have you ever heard of that, I
say?
FOOTNOTE:
[35] From "The Autocrat or the Breakfast Table," by Oliver Wendell Holmes, a
noted American author and physician (1809—1894).
FOOTNOTE:
[36] Translated from Alexandre Dumas, a noted French novelist (1802-1870).