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
And lore-lit soul of Julian brought
Slowly at length, nor consciously,
A soothing to the Indian's thought.

They parted—but Chang henceforth came
Oft to the student's solitude;

And to renew and thread the same

And mazelike commune Julian woo'd.

Oft while the brother silent sate,
Silent but not unheeding—they

Conn'd the high themes of human fate,
The birth of flesh, and its decay.
The' uneven dooms of life---the' unsolved
Arcana of the life to come;

And Chance with wistful thought revolved
When Truth's close oracles grew dumb.
On these high themes, with all that shines
From the pure One Creed's solemn shrines,
They blend the wild, but lofty dreams

Of other climes, and moulder 'd ages,
Nor bar the Christian's sun-lit themes

The star-thoughts of the heathen sages.

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Then the full student pour'd the store
Yet fresh in Wisdom's urns of yore.

The Ionian Seer, who first * in Greece,
The sage's lamp of naptha lighted,
Fair Wisdom's tranquil creed of peace,
With plumed Freedom's faith united; †
And that all-grasping truth proclaimed, ‡
Which Heaven itself hath proudly claimed ;-

The rival Samian's § wilder lore
Blent from dark riddles and the hoar
Traditions of remotest years;

(Moss 'd, as it were, by antique guile,)

Won from Chaldea's Starry Seers,
And the grey Mother of the Nile!

The Wise of Clazomene, || who hung
The spell o'er his resistless tongue,

* 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
The title of her Thunder God; +
The Wise of Clazomene, who-soul'd

With contemplation-deem'd life given
But with a still heart to behold

The glory of the Earth, and Heaven;-+

Holier than these, the golden springs
Of Plato's bright imaginings;
He who became the fount, where all
The fondly wise their visions fed;
And with a charm'd and solemn thrall

Knit Hope, and Solace with the Dead!
The Star that shone on tombs !—the light,
Which, more than aught beside, broke the world's
· Gentile night;—

And He§ whose lofty name hath gone
Too lightly from our lips; who drew

* 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,
And call'd it " VIRTUE," and adored ;--

Of these the student spake, and still
The lore grew lovely on his tongue,
For Wisdom's lute needs slender skill,
If not too harshly strung.

In turn, the Indian boy releast

From their dark woods, and shadowy caves,
The unshaped Chimeras of the East

And with such draughts his listener thrilled,
As from the unsunned and solemn waves

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;
The homes the Eternal Law prescribes;
The mystic Nat's innumerous tribes,
From the dread monster-race, who deep
In wood and wave their empire keep ;
Haply, where Casse's waters spring
To-day, beside the Dragon-King.†
To those whose mightier legions hold
The crystal temple's halls of gold.‡
And higher, to the unfathomed space,
Swayed by the Arupa's airy race.§

Then from the glories of the blest

He glided, dreadly pleased to tell
Of the four states the accurs'd invest; ||

From that, where, in their rugged clay,
Glimmering and dumb, the brute-tribe stray,

* 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