PERICLES AND ASPASIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 214, 3 April 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

PERICLES AND ASPASIA.

vest posterity. —George Croly.

Thia wax thi- niW of the land When Athene was the land of fame ; This* w:i» th- h^lit that led the band When e.ich w.is like a living flame; The centra ot eaith'x noblest ring, Of more than men the more than king. Yet not by fetter nor by spear. His so\ereisrnty was held or won; Feared—but alone as freemen fear, Loved—hut us freemen love alone • He waved tho xceptre o'er his kind By Nature* Hr^t great title—mind. Re«istU.«s words were on his tonfrue; Theiv eloquence first flashed beiow ; Full armed to life the portent spring — Minerva from the Thunderer • brow! And his the «ole, the sacred hand ' That shook his seuris o'er the land. And throned immortal, by bit Mae, A woman Hits, with eye sublime— Aspasia, all hfc spirit's bride; But, it their solemn love were crime, Pity the beauty and the »*ge — , Their crime was in their darkened ajpe. He periithed, but his wreath was,won —. He perished on his height <tf fame ; Then sank the cloud on Atnon's sub, Yet still she conquered in bis name. Filled with his soul she could not die ; Her conq was -