e water-course,
Woods, fields with dew impearled,
The quenchless vital force,
The sap of all the world,--
I banish from my heart
This reckless passion's ghost,
Mysterious shade, depart!
In the dark past be lost!
And thou whom once I met
As friend, while thou didst live,
The hour when I forget,
I likewise should forgive.
Let me forgive! I break
The long-uniting spell.
With a last tear, oh take,
Take thou, a last farewell.
Now, gold-haired, pensive Muse,
On to our pleasures! Sing--
Some joyous carol choose,
As in the dear old Spring.
Mark, how the dew-drenched lawn
Scents the auroral hour.
Waken my love with dawn,
And pluck her garden's flower.
Immortal nature, see!
Casts slumber's veil away.
New born with her are we
In morning's earliest ray.

NOTES TO "EPISTLE" OF JOSHUA IBN VIVES OF ALLORQUI.

The life and character of Paulus de Santa Maria are thus described by
Dr. Graetz:--

"Among the Jews baptized in 1391, no other wrought so much harm to his
race as the Rabbi Solomon Levi of Burgos, known to Christians as Paulus
Burgensis, or de Santa Maria (born about 1351-52, died 1435) who rose to
very high ecclesiastical and political rank.... He had no philosophical
culture; on the contrary, as a Jew, he had been extremely devout,
observing scrupulously all the rites, and regarded as a pillar of
Judaism in his own circle.... Possessed by ambition and vanity, the
synagogue where he had passed a short time in giving and receiving
instruction, appeared to him too narrow and restricted a sphere.
He longed for a bustling activity, aimed at a position at court,
in whatever capacity, began to live on a grand scale, maintained a
sumptuous equipage, a spirited team, and a numerous retinue of servants.
As his affairs brought him into daily contact with Christians and
entangled him in religious discussions, he studied ecclesiastical
literature in order to display his erudition. The bloody massacre
of 1391 robbed him of all hope of reaching eminence as a Jew, in his
fortieth year, and he abruptly resolved to be baptized. The lofty degree
of dignity which he afterwards attained in Church and State, may even
then have fl