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the same name.
73. HYMNE DE L'ENFANT À SON RÉVEIL. From _les Harmonies poétiques et religieuses_.
76. LE PREMIER REGRET. From _les Harmonies poétiques et religieuses_. It was inspired by the memory of Graziella. 7. MER DE SORRENTO, bay of Naples; Sorrento is a small town on the bay, south-east of Naples.
77. 27. NÉMI; the lake is in the hollow of an extinct volcano, in the Alban mountains, a few miles southeast of Rome.
81. STANCES. From _les Nouvelles Méditations_. 18. MEMNON, son of Tithonus and Eos, king of the Ethiopians, slain by Achilles. The Greeks connected with Memnon various ancient monuments and buildings, especially the great temple at Thebes and one of the colossi of Amenophis III., currently called the statue of Memnon; legend reported of it that when touched by the first rays of the dawn it gave forth a musical sound.
83. LES RÉVOLUTIONS. From _les Harmonies poétiques et religieuses_. Only the last of the three divisions of the poem is given here.
84. 20. SIBYLLES ANTIQUES; concerning the sibyls, sibylline books, and sibylline leaves consult a classical dictionary. 23. VERBE; used currently for the second person of the Trinity; here it goes back to a passage in the first division of the poem, where speaking of God's process of creation; he says:
"Son Verbe court sur le néant!
Il court, et la Nature à ce Verbe qui vole
Le suit en chancelant de parole en parole,
Jamais, jamais demain ce qu'elle est aujourd'hui!
Et la création, toujours, toujours nouvelle,
Monte éternellement la symbolique échelle
Que Jacob rêva devant lui! "
85. 8. LES NOEUDS, knots of nautical reckoning.
ALFRED DE VIGNY.
1797-1863.
One of the great poets of the century. He surpassed most, if not all, of his fellow Romanticists in the intellectual quality of his verse. His lyrics are not merely the product of a moment of p