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ELYSIUM.
"In the Elysium of the ancients, we find none but heroes and persons who had either been fortunate or distinguished on earth; the children, and apparently the slaves and lower classes, that is to say, Poverty, Misfortune, and Innocence, were banished to the infernal regions."
Chateaubriand, Génie du Christianisme.
Fair wert thou in the dreams
Of elder time, thou land of glorious flowers,
And summer winds, and low-toned silvery streams
Dim with the shadows of thy laurel-bowers!
Where as they passed, bright hours
Left no faint sense of parting, such as clings
To earthly love, and joy in loveliest things!
