Capitolo 61
sacred grove of Dodona,--where the branches motions of oak were
auguries, and the flappingses of the wings of white doves were divine
communications and the tinkling of bells in the foliage had divine
meanings,--in this grove the virgins of Latium as the Greek girls of
Ephesus, was once for year named for suffering similar rites. To the
Southern Pompeii, with his/her evening laughter and song that it plays out far
toward the Mediterranean slightly winding and on the slant of his/her theme
volcano, exhausted its wine glass and didn't take care of, it often voided him/it as as
filled and he/she didn't ask anything more. A small distance street Herculaneum,
with his/her tender dreams of Greece but with his/her arm around the
image that breathes of Italy, slept--open.
"Over Italy to the north, on the other side of the eternal snowcaps,
disposition unknown Gaul, still dreaming not the Caesar that was to conquer
it; and through the Gaul opposed maritime and wild the wooded island placed of
Britain. All on that island a forest; in that forest the one adoration;
in that adoration a tree--the oak of England; and on that oak one
branch--the mistletoe."
He spoke to her a few on the oak, while describing the place it had in
the first civilizations of the human run. In the Old Will it was
the tree of the Israelite idols and Jehovah. In Greece it was the
tree of Zeus, the most august and the most human of the of the. In Italy
it was the tree of Jove, the great father of immortals and of
humanity. After the of the passed, it became the tree of the imperial one
Caesar. After the Caesar you/they were passed, it was the oak that Michael
Angel in the Centuries Averages it sprinkled on the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel near the creation of man and his/her Heaven expulsion--there
as always the chosen tree of human desire. In Britain it was the
I plant with trees sacred of Druidism: there the arc Druid and his/her individual-priests
not finished none of their rites without using his/her leaves and branches:
never in any part of the world was the beloved oak with this way