PODL8 OJ' IU!:J'LECTION .lln> 8DTDU.K1', 163Let all sweet flowers bloom in ita green retreats;
Let enry wiltf-bird find sweet welcome there ;
ADd every thiug that ebnl'efl the breathillg joy
Of nnivei'8Al air and earth, be free
Of thy well-ordered empire ; and inlay
With precioua gem a, with diamond and white pearl,
And blood-red ruby o.nd green emerald,
The eumptuoua pavement till it ahinee a(ar
Like the Apocalyptic shtine, whose walls
Ofm8.88ive light from Eo.rth ll!ld Sun received
All V1U7ing lustres, nnd rl.iffused their beams.
Freaco ita inner walls with o.ll that Art
E 'er pictured of the Bellutiful, bat atill
Let Nature freely come to aee that Art
Hath rightly drawn her perfectlovelineea.
Fill the grand balls with statues of old time.
Let Godi and Demi-Gods and Heroes range
With Goddeaeea and Graces. Let the Sainta
And Seers and Sages, and the va.liant t.brong
Of modern Heroes, and the ever young
And ever tuneful Poets of all clime~,
· And Bieropbants of all religion a, have
Their place 11mong them, eome in silver carved,
Some in the Parian ruarble, some in gold;
Elich symboliziug that interior truth
Or outward use he lived, tan~bt, acted, aung,
Or aongbt to l ive, or act, or su1g, that men,
Tired tiy that pure ideal, might become
Gods, and the Earth a new-born Paradiae.
Gather all booka within ita Libraries.
Bid Greece awake through aU her words of fire,
And Athena wear her violet crown again,
And the seven cities plead for Homer dead.
Let Marathon nnd Salm:nia come forth,
Leuctra and Thermopylm, with all
The hosts who fL1Ug their free lives on the pile
Of patriotic virtue, or who cast
The gage of battle to unnomber'd foes,
And then redeem'd it, giving to the earth
Their dast, their lives to the great mother-land,
Their Spirits to the Hero-ho.ll$ above.
Chant thou thy Epic, Homer; tell the tale
Of Troy to modern hearts of living men.
Bid Indi&. from her Sanscrit speak; let all
The Vedas wide unroll their parchment gates~
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