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FROM THE GREEK OF SIMONIDES .
This admired fragment of the most plaintive of the Greek poets , which reminds us of the passage ill the Tempest where Prospero speaks of the like
misery to which he had been subjected with his infant daughter , has been frequently translated ; and perhaps , had 1 seen some of the later versions . I
should not have attempted another . Some of the passages have been variously read by scholars , and therefore I have ventured upon one or two interpretations of my own , such as appeared to me most natural to the occasion : as in the
instance of attributing the nightlight to a lamp , and not to the shining of the moon , or of lightning . Those who have been at sea know how dismal is the look of lamp-light in a dark stormy night ; and it is
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not unnatural to suppose that the chest , coffer , or whatever it was in which the mother and infant were exposed , was furnished with one . It even suggests an additional circumstance
of the pathetic , in leading us to conclude that they were thrust forth to sea at night-time , and cruelly ( or kindly , as it might happen ) furnished with an apparent help accordingly . It is a consolation , even in a fable .
when fable is so like truth , to know that the voyagers saved their lives , and that the infant became no less a man than the hero Perseus . It is impossible ,
in reading such fragments as these , not to regret that we possess so few remains of a poet , whose writings Catullus has designated by the title of " tears . "
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. -. 1 MOTHER AND CHILD , EXPOSED TO THE SEA .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/43/
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