And all the while upon him dwelt Ching's gaze, whose chill'd and stricken mind For the first time in terror felt, The nature to his own entwined. So talked they! but the broad and high They parted—but Chang henceforth came And to renew and thread the same And mazelike commune Julian woo'd. Oft while the brother silent sate, Conn'd the high themes of human fate, And Chance with wistful thought revolved Of other climes, and moulder 'd ages, The star-thoughts of the heathen sages. P Then the full student pour'd the store The Ionian Seer, who first * in Greece, The rival Samian's § wilder lore (Moss 'd, as it were, by antique guile,) Won from Chaldea's Starry Seers, The Wise of Clazomene, || who hung * Thales, the founder of the Ionian School of Philosophy, and the first Greek who received the title of Sage, and taught the immortality of the soul. It was an observation of Thales, "that nothing was so base as to allow a tyrant to grow old." "Know thyserf." E Calo descendit, &c. § Pythagoras, the creator of the great Italian School opposed to the Ionian. || Anaxagoras. On whom the Olive Queen* bestowed With contemplation-deem'd life given The glory of the Earth, and Heaven;-+ Holier than these, the golden springs Knit Hope, and Solace with the Dead! And He§ whose lofty name hath gone * Athens. + Pericles, the pupil of Anaxagoras, was sometimes honourably, sometimes satirically, styled "the Olympian," from the thunder of his eloquence. When Anaxagoras, the peculiar property of whose mind has been called "a certain high-wrought and fanciful sublimity," was asked why he came into the world, he answered, "To behold the sun, the moon, and the marvels of nature." The illustrious Zeno, the father of the most exalted and least appreciated philosophy, which an uninspired reasoner ever devised. The noblest form that ever shone Upon the old world's dazzled view; Reared it above all change and chance, Bowed Earth, Time, Fortune, to its throne, And made it in sublime romance, Itself its Universe alone ; And then within the high Dream stored, Of these the student spake, and still In turn, the Indian boy releast From their dark woods, and shadowy caves, And with such draughts his listener thrilled, Of Fable and of Awe, his urn Perchance each elder wanderer filled; And, home regained, bade Wisdom learn What Craft or Folly first instilled. Marvels, I ween, did he recount Of huge Mienmo's* visioned mount; * Mienmo, the Mount of vision, placed in the centre of the most elevated part of the earth. Of Boudha's hallowed toils, and all The pomp of Mooktzke's* glorious hall; Then from the glories of the blest He glided, dreadly pleased to tell From that, where, in their rugged clay, * Boudha holds his divine habitation in Mooktzke, or the Hall of Glory. + The Dragon King, who always sleeps at the foot of those mountains, whence the River Casse springs, is said to have seen the first god who appeared in this world; and it is believed, that he will see the last. He only awakes from his sleep at the appearance of a new god. ‡ The Sun, which belongs to the habitation Zadumaharit (held by one order of Nat) is represented as being without chrystal, and within gold. § The Arupa, are the immaterial beings, or spirits; the other creatures, however angelic or elevated, being corporeal. || There are four states of Apé, or misery; the first, that of all animals |