A DAY AT TIVOLI.

ARGUMENT.

Morning. Ancient olive grove. Cascatelle. Ruined Villa. Its objects of Art, and Library. Musings therefrom. Lizards. Italian climate, and landscape, and peasants, male and female. How modified by social position. Address to Italy. Great cascade at mid-day. Italian and Swiss scenery, how differing. River Anio. Antiquarian estimate of time. Route to Italy. Ruins of Rome, and thoughts and feelings thence arising. Tivoli resumed. Italy everywhere abounding in picture, modern or ancient, or combined. Illustrated by farm house. Fountains-Vintage scene Street Music. Reflections. A modern Roman Catholic church. Foreign travel and its proper result. Afternoon-refreshment at hostel. Horace and Virgil. Mecenas and Augustus. Ruined palace of the Cæsars. Horace and Virgil resumed. Temple of Tivoli at evening. Critics. Coming on of night over Campagna.

A DAY AT TIVOLI.

PROLOGUE.

FAIR blows the breeze- depart-depart-
And tread with me th' Italian shore;

And feed thy soul with glorious art;
And drink again of classic lore.

Nor sometime shalt thou deem it wrong,
When not in mood too gravely wise,

At idle length to lie along,

And quaff a bliss from bluest skies.

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Or, pleased more pensive joy to woo,

At twilight eve, by ruin grey,

Muse o'er the generations, who

Have passed, as we must pass, away.

Or mark o'er olive tree and vine

Steep towns uphung; to win from them

Some thought of Southern Palestine;

Some dream of old Jerusalem.