...the shore ; And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland, Of w'fe and child, and slave — but evermore Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the...return no more. And all at once they sang — Our island home Is far beyond the wave, we will no longer roam. The modern Lotos Eaters — when I say...

...melancholy, such as that expressed in ' The Lotus-eaters' — • ' but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields of barren foam,' is profoundly felt in the passage — At procul in sola secretae Troades acta Amissum Anchisen flebant...

...Border'd with palm, and many a winding vale Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields...return no more ; ' And all at once they sang, ' Our island home Is far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam." CHORIC SONG. I. THERE is sweet music...

...Tennyson, who, having lost the faculty of admiration, had lost also the faculty of enjoyment : — " Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields of barren foam." To men thus disconsolate it might be a source of happiness, " In the hollow lotos-land to live and...

...neart did make. And sweet it was to dream of Father-land, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields of barreu foam. • Then some one said, '• We will return no more ; And all at once they sang, " Our...

...return, but clave Fast to that tribe, for ever fain to eat, Eeckless of home-return, the tender Lotus sweet." Those who ate of it had to be dragged back...island-home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam." " t * The Greek historian Herodotus places a tribe of lotuseaters, "who live by eating nothing but...

...sweet it was to dream of Father-land, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields...return no more ;" And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam." CHORIC SONG I. HERE is sweet music here...

...sweet it was to dream of Fatherland, Of child, and wife, and slave ; but evermore 40 Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, "Weary the wandering fields...return no more ; " And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam." 45 S2B GALAHAD. MY good blade carves...

...slave : but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields of harren foam. Then some one said, "We will return no more ; " And all at once they sang, " Our island home ls far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam." CHORlC SONG. i. THERE is sweet music...

...the shore ; And sweet it was to dream of Father-land, Of child and wife, and slave ; but evermore 40 Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar, Weary the...return no more ; ' ' And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam." 45 THE SEA-FAIRIES. Sweet faces, rounded...