...chosen for translation the fine passage describing the scene, which closes the_Eighth Book : — " As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful,...stars Shine, and the shepherd gladdens in his heart : So many a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanthus blazed before the towers of Troy, A thousand...

...heaven. And these all night upon the bridge of war . Sat glorying; many a fire before them blazed: As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful,...Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine upon the shepherd gladdens in his heart: So many a fire between the ships and stream Of Hanthus blazed...

...rendered by Mr. Tennyson more severely (Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse) : " As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful,...valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to the highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens In his heart," Thackeray has left us...

...heaven. And these all night upon the ridge of war Sat glorying ; many a fire before them blazed : As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful,...stars Shine, and the shepherd gladdens in his heart. So mauy a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanthus blazed before the towers of Troy, A thousand...

...heaven. And these all night upon the bridge * of war Sat glorying ; many a fire before them blazed : As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful...all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in hü heart : So many a Иre between the ships and stream Of .\ . ' ttt ! m -, blazed before the towers...

...heaven the stars abort the moon Look beautiftJ, when aH the winds are laid, And every height conies cot, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable...stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart: So many a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanthns blazed before the towers of Troy, A thousand...

...heaven. And these all night upon the ridge of war Sat glorying; many a fire before them blazed: As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful,...laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley,and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the shepherd...

...sticks burn away in a fire; that plants and animals grow and die; that if he struck his fellow-savage a blow he would make him angry, and perhaps get a...and the shepherd gladdens in his heart." 1 If the half-savage Greek could share our feelings thus far, it is irrational to doubt that he went further,...

...describes in a beautiful piece of word painting, of which we append Tennyson's charming translation. "As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful,...stars Shine, and the shepherd gladdens in his heart; So, many a fire between the ships and stream Of Xanlhus blazed before the towers of Troy, A thousand...

...— " And these all night upon the bridge of war Sat glorying ; many a fire before them blazed : As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful,...stars Shine, and the shepherd gladdens in his heart." (Trans, by Tennyson.) In this magnificent simile the nightly camp and watchfires of Hector and his...