Capitolo 66
"The pyramids without thee I have seen,
My sweet brother and anchor, as I render sad,
The bitter torn wounds have poured adown my cheek,
And sadly careful of the absence of thy now
I chisel here this note sadness."
Then follows the name and titles of the absent brother that it is better known
to posterity from these lines scribbled of the tourist of a Cook that from some
official record that has come down to us. All of these pieces of
popular poetry that we am discussing so far was engraved on
stone, bronze, plaster or on the other durable material. A very little pieces
of some kind of toward, from a to a half dozen of lines in length, you/he/she has come
down to us in literature. They also, has the unique distinction to be
champions of poetry of people Roman, and some of them are found more anymore in the
unlikely places. Two of them are preserved by a learned commentator on
the Epistles of Horace. They bring again Them us to our days of school-boy. When us
reading
"The sore picks him/it up who is last to contact me, " [78]
we can see the Roman little devil that is standing in the market-place, while the singing psalms
formula magic, and opposite him lads' line on you walk in point of feet, every one
waiting for the signal to race through the space that interposes him and to be the
before to touch their comrade. What visions of first days returned to
us--days when we hooked hands in a circle and we approximately danced one or two
children put in the centre of the ring, and it sang psalms in concordant some
you brake him, to the I read in the same commentator to Horace a ditty that
runs:[79]
"King is able her both
If you do well.
If you do sick
You won't be."
The other pieces of poetry of people Roman that we have I am the most greater part of them
preserved by Suetonius the gossipy biographer of the Caesar. They remembers
very different scenes. Caesar is returned in triumph to Rome, while drawing
his/her train the trousered Gauls, to mix on the road with the robe-suit
Romans. He has also had the audacity to enroll some of this strange