Mimnermos of Colophon (verse) Translation of John Sherry Mangan
October 27, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 611 A PARABLE OF...
...of Sic av$eu yiyvetat dpna4a The resolve to keep one's mind open to romance is the dv&ea'aty j&E yvvat~iv- ensi b' o&uvripov inANt secret defense against materialism...
...His little pack contains his shoes and not much else...
...Whether fact or not, it None of these people has marked a pair of ducks winging is true, not only to its own old day, but to that perennial ashigh in the pale blue...
...Agpo&it...
...The paradox that romance is at once of the past and of youth should remind 'HAto...
...dpyaAEov yi1pa...
...there can be no doubt of its truth...
...yiyvetat ov&Eµia that analysis of documents is a means, not an end...
...It is a parable of romance...
...another romance...
...A vaudeville singer was stranded in a country town...
...for the family on the deck just beneath us, That is the other half of romance...
...But the questing birds hold the eyes piration which will achieve poetry...
...our sense of the past as alive for the future...
...You may Ixnotoiv tE tai avTwt, i ndi pobo&ax'ruAo...
...This mere modulation and precision before their most treasured statue...
...Indeed," said the Superior, suddenly ilthe office, is lifted a bit above himself by boats, even by oil luminated, "the Blessed Mother accepts your singing...
...He was fed, tended, for he is borne through the billows, asleep on his longed-after soothed, but not long satisfied...
...of another...
...svvA lyze Lafayette into prose, without forcing youth to abjure xoti)ti 'Hcpaiktov xspaiv i 7,.ri4CµEvri knighthood and freedom...
...and the guest-master asked few questions...
...EOiixs 'De6...
...But love clandestine no more, and gifts honey-sweet, and the lovewhether of anger or of anguish, the sceptical protest against couch ; romance never quite freezes the sap in those whose hearts are such soft flowers of youth, such as are deeply desired green...
...Viv y&p novov Waxsv fpµata navta, us that youth at any age seeks in history not facts, but truth ; ou&E xor' aµnavat...
...Did not you...
...to the child in the red dress...
...it is yesterday read for the hope Ev&ov*' dpna1 o; xwpou dcp' 'EuxeQ[8wv of tomorrow...
...bE do;, ti bi tsp-nvov atsp xpvai...
...So barges and black trawlers...
...Hcu...
...Sick %0' ene6i(ae'' 06v oxicov 'YJEpiovo...
...Leaning on his bicycle, he gazes till his nostrils quiver...
...leaving Okeanos there, high unto heaven ascends...
...The tidy mother divines in them he was made choirmaster, and found in the offices his poetry...
...Far from hankering for the stale old deep waters applause, he was deeply moved toward worship...
...Still he stayed...
...in body, still more in soul, he wandered from the mean hotel and his mean little troupe through the snow to a monastery...
...The materialist, repeating the What living, what delectation, without Aphrodite the golden...
...diCimnermos of Colophon Whatever the miles of his wheel, he is ranging far...
...but among boys is a foe, dishonored and scorned among women "Once upon a time"-chill seasons ,f doubt must not numb thus has the god composed man's harsh cruel old age...
...By CHARLES SEARS BALDWIN Hearing strange sounds in the chapel one night after hours, R OMANCE is always inward and always young...
...In a sudden after the rose-fingered Eos, deserting the sea-enclosed chamber resolve, made of hunger more than of appetite, he knocked...
...That romance is immortal is the faith of immortal ever by men and by women ; but when pain-bearing senescence youth...
...vioc...
...tstfyairw, OTC got µTIXEtt taUUTa µEkot, Our desire to gaze still as he gazes is not an echo...
...old sarcasms of the fabliaux, means in his heart that he wishes then may I die when remain mine no longer these limbs, romance were dead in all men since it has died in him...
...Disillusionment always do evil anxieties bruise him in mind and molest him, toward O. Henry or the films may but open the mind to older nor, the bright rays of the sun seeing, is he delighted, and deeper spells...
...sixteen years old...
...It has been told so often since that as if it had, indeed, a world of its own...
...Eelios is allotted all days an abundance of toiling, The singing of men within stirred in him something old, over- nor is there ever surcease, or for himself or his steeds, laid, starved, forgotten, but not quite dead...
...Her father, after his day at and she likes it...
...October 27, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 611 A PARABLE OF ROMANCE he could not study nor paint, nor even help with the accounts and the business letters, much less with the books...
...The transfiguration and the hope outlast the yatav Eg A'1ton(ov, Iva &i *oov aeµa xai Innot moonshine of adolescence...
...The story was told first relaxing at supper, is as proudly immune to our observation in the twelfth century...
...What should he do in brown love-couch, sackcloth and the lights of worship and study after being like to a vessel in form, wrought by Hephaistos's hands, disillusioned with tinsel and glare...
...and they ovtoo...
...said so when those who had been cool to George Eliot were ready to run after Stevenson...
...but TRANSLATION OF JOHN SHERRY MANGAN...
...atad, 64)p' 'Hbc ~ptyEveta t. Aw1t...
...But the miracle was winged underneath, and resplendent with gilding, across the that he wished to do...
...At that age, I looked like him...
...The romance that possessed stand until she sets forth, Eos, the usher of morn...
...He was not bored then does the son of Huperion swiftly ascend to his chariots...
...it is an xpvrttabi,q cpt?,dnig xai µsi~txa &wpa xai svvt answer...
...He is Ti...
...him must find some utterance of his own...
...Romance is the past transfigured xpvaou UgAEVto;, v:co1ttEpoc, axpoV Ecp' v& o by the present for the future...
...he did not grudge his share of sweeping...
...Materialists repeat the yhpla;, o T' aiaxpov 6gk xai xaMv av&pa TLOEI, shallow jest that romance is outworn...
...riddle the legend of King Arthur or William Tell, and ana- 'Qxsavov npoXtnova' oveavov siaavaPjt• tov µEv yap &ta xvta cpEpet 3t0kUApato...
...A better vaudeville circuit offered unto the Aithiopes, where his eager car and his horses a better job...
...by the new hours...
...city foot-bridge over the midst of river traffic is all adventure To their horrified faces he burst out: "I had to do something...
...tEV nataiv, dtiµaatos SE yvvat~iv they said so, of course, just before Scott and Shelley...
...They said so in the aisi µtv cp va...
...Driven for awhile to doubt that it is here, the faithful comes, which falls on each man, shameful and noble alike, still believe that it is there or was then...
...it de- they found him rendering popular dance-songs with admirable pends less on the call than on the response...
...dµni xaxai TEipovat µfptµvat, thirteenth century, which we now call the age of romance ; oub' cr ya5 npoaopWV tepnETat ~E7viov, dXA' ix&po...
...The door rapidly thence from the land Hesperidian is borne was open, and the road...
Vol. 4 • October 1926 • No. 25
