...chosen for translation the fine passage describing the scene, which closes the Eighth Book :— " As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful,...stars Shine, and the shepherd gladdens in his heart : So many a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanthus blazed before the to were of Troy, A thousand...

...upon the bridge * of wa r Sat glorying; many afire before them blazed : As when in heaven the svars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds...stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his (heart : So many a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanthus blazed beforethe towers of Trov, A thousand...

...Tennyson's translation of this passage in the 8th Book must be my excuse for introducing it : ' As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful...height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the unmeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the shepherd gladdens...

...that their fathers had once herded their flocks together, watched the rising and setting of the sun, " and the immeasurable heavens break open to their highest, and all the stars shine " ? Yet so it is, on the great stage of the world as on the small stage of the family, brothers part...

...heaven. And there all night upon the bridge of war Sat glorying ; many a fire before them blazed ; As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful,...stars Shine, and the shepherd gladdens in his heart : So many a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanthus blazed before the towers of Troy. A thousand...

...plaintive voice was heard in earnest supplication ; all else was perfect stillness ; even as * » « When in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful when all the winds are laid.' yet there was not a soul in that room that had not become conscious of the presence and working of...

...winds are laid. And every height comes ont, and jntting peak And valley, and the immeasnrahle heaveus Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdeus in his heart: So many a fire hetween the ships and stream Of XaiUhns hlazed hefore the towers...

...heaven. And these all night upon the bridge * of war Sat glorying ; many a fire before them blazed : As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the windsare laid, And every height comes out, and jutting penk And valley, and the immeasurable heavens...

...; it suggests the simile of Homer in the 8th book of the " Iliad " (Tennyson's translation) : " As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful,...stars Shine, and the shepherd gladdens in his heart." Kote the contrast of art and like (ie, of being and seeming) in 6th stanza. Stanza 7 is the climax...

...chosen for translation the fine passage describing the scene, which closes the_Eighth Book : — " As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful,...stars Shine, and the shepherd gladdens in his heart : So many a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanthus blazed before the towers of Troy, A thousand...