The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . ?*T«F?-*?\V-*v^4^S3&;Z/!a<s.«s:i;«-air;u f \. Drawing by Eddie M Jury THE CATE OK MESSINA 187 188 THE CANADIAN jMAGAZINE last look at night. He will under-take no journey without first consult-ing her, and one of the Sicilian poetshas said:.... the very lemonboughs of Mascali, the orange branch-es of Aci, the roses and lilies uponthe breasts of Catania rejoice whenEtna is serene, shrink and darkenwhen the great mother frowns. The old goatherd reminded us ofthe description Ovid gives of Etna,where the
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . ?*T«F?-*?\V-*v^4^S3&;Z/!a<s.«s:i;«-air;u f \. Drawing by Eddie M Jury THE CATE OK MESSINA 187 188 THE CANADIAN jMAGAZINE last look at night. He will under-take no journey without first consult-ing her, and one of the Sicilian poetshas said:.... the very lemonboughs of Mascali, the orange branch-es of Aci, the roses and lilies uponthe breasts of Catania rejoice whenEtna is serene, shrink and darkenwhen the great mother frowns. The old goatherd reminded us ofthe description Ovid gives of Etna,where the imprisoned Titan vomitsflame from his raging mouth, struggl-ing to throw off the earth, and to rollaway cities. Sicily is not of to-day. The peoplewho live there seem to belong to abygone age, the buildings in whichthey dwell, to an age even more re-mote, and the labourer who digs deep-ly in his garden or excavates theground for building is sure to discovercoins of long ago. broken jars of an-tique design, and even portions ofbeautiful mosaic pavement that decor-ated the floor of some palace in themysterious past. The ignorance of th
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