ependence that
he witnessed as a boy and the heroic figure of Bolivar;
then he laments the fratricidal struggles that rent the
older and larger Colombia; and, finally, in the verses
that are here given, he rejoices over the friendly treaty
just made by the mother country, Spain, and Colombia, her
daughter.

8. The colors of the Colombian flag are yellow, blue and
red.

9. The colors of the Spanish flag are red and yellow. On
the Spanish arms two castles (for _Castilla_) and two
lions (for _Leon_) are pictured.

=164.=--J.E. Caro: see note to p. 162.

=167.=--Marroquin: see note to p. 162.

=Los cazadores y la perrilla=: compare with Goldsmith's
"Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog."

=168.=--7. =Moratin=: see note to p. 26. _La caza_ is in
_Bibl. de Aut. Esp._, II, 49 f.

=169.=--16. =describilla=, archaic or poetic for
_describirla_.

=171.=--M.A. Caro: see note to p. 162.

=174.=--14-16. =sombria... alcanzaran= = _(siendo la
Eternidad) sombria y eterna, ni el odio ni el amor, ni la
fe ni la duda, alcanzaran nada en sus abismos_.

=179.=--=Cuba.= Although the literary output of Cuba
is greater than that of some other Spanish-American
countries, yet during the colonial period there was
in Cuba a dearth of both prose and verse. The Colegio
Semanario de San Carlos y San Ambrosio was page 292
founded in 1689 as a theological seminary and was
reorganized with lay instruction in 1769. The University
of Havana was established by a papal bull in 1721 and
received royal sanction in 1728; but for many years it
gave instruction only in theological subjects. The first
book printed in Cuba dates from 1720. Not till the second
half of the eighteenth century did poets of merit appear
in the island. Manuel de Zequeira y Arango (1760-1846)
wrote chiefly heroic odes (_Poesias_, N.Y., 1829; Havana,
1852). Inferior to Zequeira was Manuel Justo de Rubalcava
(1769-1805), the author of bucolic poems and sonnets
(_Poesias_, Santiago de Cuba, 1848).

The Cuban poet Don Jose Maria Heredia (1803-1839) is
better known in Europe and in the United States than Bello
and Olmedo, since his poems are universal in their appeal.
He is especially well known in the United States, where he
lived in exile for over two years (1823-1825), at first in
Boston and later in New York, and wrote his famous ode to
Niagara. Born in Cuba, he studied in Santo Domingo and
in Caracas (1812-1817), as well as in his native island.
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