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My Birthday.
My Birthday .
Its sister flower—faded , dead . That to the world its sweetness gave—Its beauty gone—its perfume fled—Sank unlamented to the grave . So , with the world : —they mourn not those "Who , ling ' ring joyless hopeless die ;
For them , like the poor withered rose , Love hath no tear—regret no sigh ! Earth mourns but when the young , the gay , The fair and lovely seek the tomb : The blighted heart may pine away—Unfelt its pangs , unwept its doom .
But hence , dull thoughts ! the sun is bright—His beams o ' er Zurich's lake are stealing ; The mountains' tops are crown'd with light , The glaciers' distant peaks revealing . There ' s mirth and song—' tis festive day—Strange!—and the day that gave me birth ; For once I ' 11 mingle with the gay ,
And—if I feel not—view their mirth . My cup is filled with Rhenish wine ; But ere I join their rustic glee , I ' 11 drain it at love ' s purest shrine—¦ The health , dear mother , is to thee . Though life hath been a shoreless sea ,
A helmless bark , a wreck adrift—The fault , the madness , rest with me ! 1 love thee , mother , for the gift . Zurich , March Villi , 1835 .
THE CRESCENT AS A SYMBOL . —The crescent was the symbol of the city of Byzantium , now Constantinople , which the Turks have adopted . This device of the Ottomans is of great antiquity , as appears from several medals , and took its rise from an event related b y Stevens , the geographer , a native of Byzantium . He tells us that Philip , the father of Alexander the Great , meeting with mighty difficulties in carrying on the siege of that city , set the workmen in a very dark niht to
underg mine the walls , that his troops might enter the city without being perceived ; but , luckily for the besieged , the moon appearing , discovered the design , which accordingly miscarried , In acknowledgment for this deliverance , the Byzantines erected a statue to Diana , and thus thc crescent became their symbol .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
My Birthday.
My Birthday .
Its sister flower—faded , dead . That to the world its sweetness gave—Its beauty gone—its perfume fled—Sank unlamented to the grave . So , with the world : —they mourn not those "Who , ling ' ring joyless hopeless die ;
For them , like the poor withered rose , Love hath no tear—regret no sigh ! Earth mourns but when the young , the gay , The fair and lovely seek the tomb : The blighted heart may pine away—Unfelt its pangs , unwept its doom .
But hence , dull thoughts ! the sun is bright—His beams o ' er Zurich's lake are stealing ; The mountains' tops are crown'd with light , The glaciers' distant peaks revealing . There ' s mirth and song—' tis festive day—Strange!—and the day that gave me birth ; For once I ' 11 mingle with the gay ,
And—if I feel not—view their mirth . My cup is filled with Rhenish wine ; But ere I join their rustic glee , I ' 11 drain it at love ' s purest shrine—¦ The health , dear mother , is to thee . Though life hath been a shoreless sea ,
A helmless bark , a wreck adrift—The fault , the madness , rest with me ! 1 love thee , mother , for the gift . Zurich , March Villi , 1835 .
THE CRESCENT AS A SYMBOL . —The crescent was the symbol of the city of Byzantium , now Constantinople , which the Turks have adopted . This device of the Ottomans is of great antiquity , as appears from several medals , and took its rise from an event related b y Stevens , the geographer , a native of Byzantium . He tells us that Philip , the father of Alexander the Great , meeting with mighty difficulties in carrying on the siege of that city , set the workmen in a very dark niht to
underg mine the walls , that his troops might enter the city without being perceived ; but , luckily for the besieged , the moon appearing , discovered the design , which accordingly miscarried , In acknowledgment for this deliverance , the Byzantines erected a statue to Diana , and thus thc crescent became their symbol .