Reader, there being yet living so many credible gentlemen that were eye-witnesses of this wonderful thing, I venture to publish it for a thing as undoubted as 't is wonderful." Page 169. And the Emperor but a Macho. Macho, in Spanish, signifies a mule. Golondrina is the feminine form of Golondrino, a swallow, and also a cant name for a deserter. about five miles, and rising, in most places, verti- (his Magnalia Christi, Book I. Ch. VI. It is concally from the water, without any beach at the tained in a letter from the Rev. James Pierpont, base, to a height varying from fifty to nearly two Pastor of New Haven. To this account Mather hundred feet. Were they simply a line of cliffs, adds these words :they might not, so far as relates to height or extent, be worthy of a rank among great natural curiosities, although such an assemblage of rocky strata, washed by the waves of the great lake, would not, under any circumstances, be destitute of grandeur. To the voyager, coasting along their base in his frail canoe, they would, at all times, be an object of dread; the recoil of the surf, the rock-bound coast, affording, for miles, no place of refuge,-the lowering sky, the rising wind,-all these would excite his apprehension, and induce him to ply a vigorous oar until the dreaded wall was passed. But in the Pictured Rocks there are two features which communicate to the scenery a wonderful and almost unique character. These are, first, the curious manner in which the cliffs have been excavated and worn away by the action of the lake, which, for centuries, has dashed an ocean-like surf against their base; and, second, the equally curious manner in which large portions of the surface have been colored by bands of brilliant hues. "It is from the latter circumstance that the name, by which these cliffs are known to the American traveller, is derived; while that applied to them by the French voyageurs (Les Portails') is derived from the former, and by far the most striking peculiarity. "The term Pictured Rocks has been in use for a great length of time; but when it was first applied, we have been unable to discover. It would seem that the first travellers were more impressed with the novel and striking distribution of colors on the surface than with the astonishing variety of form into which the cliffs themselves have been worn. "Our voyageurs had many legends to relate of the pranks of the Menni-bojou in these caverns, and, in answer to our inquiries, seemed disposed to fabricate stories, without end, of the achievements of this Indian deity." Page 150. lifted. Page 170. Oliver Basselin. Oliver Basselin, the "Père joyeux du Vaudeville," flourished in the fifteenth century, and gave to his convivial songs the name of his native valleys, in which he sang them, Vaux-de-Vire. This name was afterwards corrupted into the modern Vaudeville. Page 171. Victor Galbraith. This poem is founded on fact. Victor Galbraith was a bugler in a company of volunteer cavalry, and was shot in Mexico for some breach soldiers that no balls will kill them unless of discipline. It is a common superstition among their names are written on them. The old proverb says, "Every bullet has its billet." Page 171. I remember the sea-fight far away. This was the engagement between the Enterprise and Boxer, off the harbor of Portland, in which both captains were slain. They were buried side by side, in the cemetery on Mountjoy. Page 173. Santa Filomena, 46 At Pisa the church of San Francisco contains a chapel dedicated lately to Santa Filomena; over the altar is a picture, by Sabatelli, representing the Saint as a beautiful, nymph-like figure, floating down from heaven, attended by two Toward the sun his hands were angels bearing the lily, palm, and javelin, and beneath, in the foreground, the sick and maimed who are healed by her intercession."-MRS. JAMESON, Sacred and Legendary Art, II. 298. Page 406. The Children's Crusade. "The Children's Crusade" was left unfinished by Mr. Longfellow. It is founded upon an event which occurred in the year 12:2. An army of twenty thousand children, mostly boys, under the lead of a boy of ten years, named Nicolas, set out from Cologne for the Holy Land. When they reached Genoa only seven thousand remained. There, as the sea did not divide to allow them to march dry-shod to the East, they broke up. Some got as far as Rome; two ship-loads sailed from Pisa, and were not heard of again; the rest straggled back to Germany. [The titles in small capital letters are those of the principal divisions of the work, those in lower- Beatrice, 24. Becalmed, 291. Beleaguered City, The, 15. Belfry of Bruges, 64. Belisarius, 263. Bell of Atri, The, 208. Bells of Lynn, The, 238. Bells of San Blas, The, 297. Beware, 27. Chimes, 295. Christmas Carol, A, 114. Chrysaor, 104. City and the Sea, The, 295. Consolation, 248. Bird and the Ship, The, 26. Birds of Killingworth, The, 205. Birds of Passage, 108. BIRDS OF PASSAGE. FLIGHT THE FIRST, 166. FLIGHT THE SECOND, 176. FLIGHT THE THIRD, 178. FLIGHT THE FOURTH, 261. Bishop Sigurd at Salten Fiord, 196.. Black Knight, The, 28. Blessing the Cornfields, 136. Blind Girl of Castèl-Cuillè, 111. PART II, 275. Books, My, 300. Boston, 277. Boy and the Brook, The, 248. Bridge, The, 70. Bridge of Cloud, The, 236. Broken Oar, The, 278. Brook, The, 23. Brook and the Wave, The, 179. Builders, The, 107. Building of the Long Serpent, The, 197. Building of the Ship, The, 100. Cobbler of Hagenau, The, 210. Coplas de Manrique, 19. COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, THE, 152. Crew of the Long Serpent, The, 198. Cumberland, The, 176. CURFEW, 77. Dante, 74, 284. Day is Done, The, 71. Day of Sunshine, A, 177. Daylight and Moonlight, 169. Death of Kwasind, The, 145. Decoration Day, 295. Dedication to the Seaside and the Fireside, 99. Dedication to Ultima Thule, 285. Delia, 275. Descent of the Muses, The, 276. Discoverer of the North Cape, The, 174. Divina Commedia, 238. Drinking Song, 73. Dutch Picture, A, 270. EARLIER POEMS, 16. Einar Tamberskelver, 201. Elegiac Verse, 297. Fire, 283. Fire of Drift-Wood, The, 106. FLOWER-DE-LUCE, 235. Flower-de-Luce, 235. Flowers, 14. FOLK SONGS, 288. Footsteps of Angels, 13. Four by the Clock, 296. Four Lakes of Madison, The, 296. Four Princesses at Wilma, The, 278. Fragment, A, 297. From my Arm-Chair, 285. From the Spanish Cancioneros, 179. Il Ponte Vecchio di Firenze, 266. In the Churchyard at Cambridge, 168. Interludes to Tales of a Wayside Inn, 184, 18" Introduction to the Song of Hiawatha, 115. Iron Pen, The, 286. It is not always May, 39. Jewish Cemetery at Newport, 170. JUDAS MACCABEUS, 240. Kambalu, 209. KÉRAMOS, 267. Killed at the Ford, 238. King Olaf and Earl Sigvalt, 200. King Olaf's Christmas, 197. King Olaf's Return, 190. King Olaf's War-Horns, 200. King Svend of the Forked Beard, 199. King Witlaf's Drinking-Horn, 109. La Chaudeau, At, 299. Ladder of St. Augustine, The, 167. Landlord's Tales, The, 183, 233. Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi, The, 188. L'ENVOI, 290, 300. Light of Stars, The, 13. Lighthouse, The, 106. Little Bird in the Air, A, 198. Love and Friendship, 153. Luck of Edenhall, The, 32. Mad River, 293. Maiden and Weathercock, 289. March of Miles Standish, The, 162. MASQUE OF PANDORA, THE, 250. Meeting, The, 178. Memories, 299. MICHAEL ANGELO, 300. Midnight Mass for the Dying Year, 15 Miles Standish, 152. Milton, 265. Prelude, 298. Something left Undone, 177. Son of the Evening Star, The, 134. SONG OF HIAWATHA, THE, 115. Song of the Silent Land, 28. SONNETS, 74, 290. Sound of the Sea, The, 266. Spanish Jew's Tales, The, 188, 209, 220, Statue over the Cathedral Door, The, 76. Student's Tales, The, 185, 210, 217, 228. Summer Day by the Sea, A, 266. Sundown, 295. Sunrise on the Hills, 17. Suspiria, 111. Tegnér's Drapa, 110. Terrestrial Paradise, The, 24. Preludes to Tales of a Wayside Inn, 181, 207, 220. Thangbrand the Priest, 195. Prelude to Voices of the Night, 11. Priscilla, 160. Prometheus, 166. Theologian's Tales, The, 203, 216, 224. The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, 289. Three Friends of Mine, 264. Three Kings, The, 274. Three Silences of Molinos, 277. Tides, The, 266. To a Child, 68. To an old Danish Song-Book, 72. To Cardinal Richelieu, 248. To Italy, 249. To my Brooklet, 282. To the Driving Clouds, 70. To the River Rhone, 277. To the River Yvette, 272. To the Stork, 248. To Vittoria Colonna, 284. To William E. Channing, 42. Torquemada, 203. Tower of Prometheus on Mount Caucasus, 250 TRANSLATIONS, 19, 75, 279, 298. Travels by the Fireside, 261. Twilight, 105. Two Angels, The, 169. Two Locks of Hair, The, 38. Two Rivers, The, 277. Wave, The, 26. Wayside Inn, The, 181. Wedding-Day, The, 165. White Man's Foot, The, 149. Windmill, The, 289. Wind over the Chimney, The, 237 Witnesses, The, 44. Workshop of Hephaestus, The, 250. Wraith of Odin, The, 193. Wreck of the Hesperus, The, 31. Youth and Age, 283. |