Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . TASSOS HOUSE, SORRENTO. and wonder where these active lads, and dark-eyed lasses, get the strength to dance on asthey do, hour after hour! From Sorrento, four boatmen row us in a couple of hours to Capri, which rises siren-like and enticing from the waves. But we mean to double Cape Minerva ; we are boundfor Amain :—a strong epic after a sweet lyric! A stern Odyssean landscape after theenchanted gardens of Armida ! Beyond Sorrento the shore grows more and more deserted ; but numerous remainsupon the rocks half eaten away by the sea, indicate the former exist
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . TASSOS HOUSE, SORRENTO. and wonder where these active lads, and dark-eyed lasses, get the strength to dance on asthey do, hour after hour! From Sorrento, four boatmen row us in a couple of hours to Capri, which rises siren-like and enticing from the waves. But we mean to double Cape Minerva ; we are boundfor Amain :—a strong epic after a sweet lyric! A stern Odyssean landscape after theenchanted gardens of Armida ! Beyond Sorrento the shore grows more and more deserted ; but numerous remainsupon the rocks half eaten away by the sea, indicate the former existence here of busy andprosperous life. There are fragments of baths and villas, the most poetical of which isthe Bath of Diana : a miniature haven, a still, calm basin between walls of natural rock,and of masonry which has become as hard as the rock itself. Elsewhere, the waves mayfoam and toss, but here they hold their breath and listen to the bathing nymphs. Outside,. BATH OF DIANA, A SEA VOYAGE FROM DAI/E TO SALERNO. 411 the waters dash themselves in spray over the stones covered with sea-weed, creep sobbingand sighing into clefts and caverns, and sink below the broad line of red the open sea between the Cape, and the island of Capri, broader waves roll in anddash themselves against the naked rocks on which Ulysses once erected a temple to theprotecting Minerva. In the Middle Ages a bell-tower stood here, whose brazen tonguewarned the inhabitants of the coast of the approach of Saracen pirate ships; whence theother name of the Cape : Campanella. The Saracens founded their kingdom on the other side of the Peninsula ; and from
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