. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; his life, his works, his friendships . is breast, saidproudly, Franz Schondorfer! thats me! thatsme! The little chapel of St. Gilgen, which contains thesingular inscription that forms, as it were, the textupon which the romance of Hyperion was written,still stands on the south side of the churchyard. Theinscription itself is on the eastern wall, and the lastpart of it reads thus : — Blicke nicht trauernd in die Vergangenheit,Sie komt nicht wieder; niitze Weisse die Gegenwart,Sie ist dein ; der diistern Zukunft gelie ohneFurclit mit niiinnlichen Sinne entgegen. Or,
. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; his life, his works, his friendships . is breast, saidproudly, Franz Schondorfer! thats me! thatsme! The little chapel of St. Gilgen, which contains thesingular inscription that forms, as it were, the textupon which the romance of Hyperion was written,still stands on the south side of the churchyard. Theinscription itself is on the eastern wall, and the lastpart of it reads thus : — Blicke nicht trauernd in die Vergangenheit,Sie komt nicht wieder; niitze Weisse die Gegenwart,Sie ist dein ; der diistern Zukunft gelie ohneFurclit mit niiinnlichen Sinne entgegen. Or, when translated, — Look not mournfully into the Past. It comesNot back again. Wisely improve the is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowyFuture without fear, and with a manly heart. 246 HENliY WADS WORTH LONGFELLOW. The tourists were absent from London about sixweeks; and during that time they became thoroughlyfamiliarized with every page of Hyperion, — anoble work, as they assert, on which its authormight be well content to rest his hope of future. Chapel of St. Gilgen, fame, even if he could not proudly point to innumer-able other examples of his genius, that will perishonly with the language in which his thoughts havefound expression. It was in the year 1834 that Longfellow sent hisfirst contribution to The Knickerbocker. In Mayof that year appeared the first instalment of what HYPERION AND VOICES OF THE NIGHT. 247 promised to be a serial publication, entitled TheBlank-Book of a Country Schoolmaster. The workis little more than a series of supposed excerpts from ateachers Journal; and, in the first number, there aresix of these, headed respectively, Saturday After-noon, An Old Saying, A Passage from Dante, The Happy Man and the Lucky Dog, MidnightDevotion, and Intellect. As a specimen of themanner and style which pervade the whole produc-tion, I here reprint the following : — It is Saturday afternoon. Once more the school-house door has creaked upon its heb
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