The Ridpath library of universal literatureA biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors . ; I bringThe voices of the stars to chime with mine:He who shall share with me this gift divine, Shall share with me the privilege of a king. Mine is no mean, no paltry offering :Cupidity itself must be contentWith such a portion as I here present; And Midass wealth to ours a trifling thing. So when our work in this our sphere was done,Deucalion towered sublimely oer the rest;And proudly dominant he stood confessed On the tenth mountain ; thence looked kindly on 3i8 ALFON
The Ridpath library of universal literatureA biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors . ; I bringThe voices of the stars to chime with mine:He who shall share with me this gift divine, Shall share with me the privilege of a king. Mine is no mean, no paltry offering :Cupidity itself must be contentWith such a portion as I here present; And Midass wealth to ours a trifling thing. So when our work in this our sphere was done,Deucalion towered sublimely oer the rest;And proudly dominant he stood confessed On the tenth mountain ; thence looked kindly on 3i8 ALFONSO X. The Sovereign Sire, who offered him a crown,Or empires vast, for his reward ; or gold,From his vast treasure, for his heirs, untold : So bold and resolute was Deucalion. Ill give you honest counsel, if you beMy kinsman or my countryman : If eerHis gift be yours, its treasury all confer On him who shall unveil the mystery ; Offer him all and offer cheerfully, And offer most sincerely. Weak and smallTo your best offering, though you offer all. Your recompense may be eternity. —From Del Tesoro, Translation ALFORD, Henry, , an English divine,biblical scholar, and poet, born in London, Octo-ber ID, 1810; died January 12, 1871. He was edu-cated at Trinity College, Cambridge ; took orders,and was made Vicar of Wymeswold, in Leicester-shire. In 1853 he took up his residence in Lon-don, becoming preacher at the Quebec StreetChapel, where he acquired much celebrity as apreacher, and was for several years before andafter Examiner in Logic and Moral Philosophy inthe University of London. He had already, in1841, delivered a masterly course of the HulseanLectures at Cambridge, and in the same year pub-lished his scholarly Chapters on the Greek Poets. In1857 he was made Dean of Canterbury. He be-gan his literary career in 1831 by the publicationof a little volume oi Poetical Fragments, which wasfollowed in 1835 by The School of the Heart andother Poems. From time to time he
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