. Lays of ancient Rome, with Ivry, and The Armada;. LXIX. When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit ;When the chestnuts glow in the embers And the kid turns on the spit ;When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close ;When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows ; 44 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. LXX. When the goodman mends his armour, And trims his helmets plume ;When the goodwifes shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ;With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told,How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of THE BATTL
. Lays of ancient Rome, with Ivry, and The Armada;. LXIX. When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit ;When the chestnuts glow in the embers And the kid turns on the spit ;When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close ;When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows ; 44 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. LXX. When the goodman mends his armour, And trims his helmets plume ;When the goodwifes shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ;With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told,How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS. THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REG1LLUS THE following poem is supposed to have been pro-duced about ninety years after the lay of persons mentioned in the lay of Horatius maketheir appearance again, and some appellations andepithets used in the lay of Horatius have beenpurposely repeated : for, in an age of ballad-poetry,it scarcely ever fails to happen, that certain phrasescome to be appropriated to certain men and things,and are regularly applied to those men and thingsby every minstrel. Thus we find, both in the Ho-meric poems and in Hesiod, fflr) Upa/cXtjeirj, irepi- ;, EXeV?;? eveK rjv/cofjioio. Thus, too, in our ownnational songs, Douglas is almost always the doughtyDouglas : England is merry England : all the goldis red ; and all the ladies are gay. The principal distinction between the lay ofHoratius and the lay of the Lake Regillus is thatthe former is meant to be purely Roman, while the 48 LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, latter, though national i
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