Under the trees . forms andshows of a royal court as well as the sim-plicity and sincerity of tangled vines andgnarled olives on the hillside. He had seen,with those eyes which overlooked nothing,the pomps and vanities of power, the fretand fever of ambition, the impotence andbarrenness of much of that activity inwhich multitudes of men spend their livesunder the delusion that mere stir and bustlemean progress and achievement. Out ofSyracuse, with its petty court about a pettytyrant, Theocritus had come back to thesea and the sky and the hardy pastoral lifewith a joy which touches some of hisl
Under the trees . forms andshows of a royal court as well as the sim-plicity and sincerity of tangled vines andgnarled olives on the hillside. He had seen,with those eyes which overlooked nothing,the pomps and vanities of power, the fretand fever of ambition, the impotence andbarrenness of much of that activity inwhich multitudes of men spend their livesunder the delusion that mere stir and bustlemean progress and achievement. Out ofSyracuse, with its petty court about a pettytyrant, Theocritus had come back to thesea and the sky and the hardy pastoral lifewith a joy which touches some of hislines with penetrating tenderness. Better athousand times for him and for us thelong, tranquil days under the pine and theolive than a great position under Hieroshand and the weary intrigue and activitywhich made the melancholy semblance ofa successful life for men less wise and gen-uine. The lines which the hand of Theoc-ritus has left on the past are few andmarvellously delicate, but they seem to141 ^^^^^^^^^.;^*. m.
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