THE WEDDING RING. LET the pure unalloyed gold of this ring Within which thou shalt pass thy days secure, From áll harm guarded by these sheltering arms. Walking from PFUNDS to RIED (German TYROL), Sept. 4, 1854. I would not, if I could, be wise, Wealth has small splendor in mine eyes, I live and breathe and see the sun, And if I'm loved by one alone, For that one heart is all my own LANDRO in the valley of AMPEZZO, July 22, 1854. CUCKOO! 'Twas ón a balmy day Évery day in June, But when búrning hot July Ah! the cúckoo bade good bye, Quick cóme again, sweet May, Till on a balmy day Again I hear her say, Cúckoo! Cuckoo! While travelling in Stellwagen from SAUERLOCH to HOLZKIRCHEN (Bavaria), July 8, 1854. JULIA ALPINULA. "My father, spare my father," Julia cried And at th' inexorable Roman's feet Threw herself, tearless: "Spare, Oh spare, my father; Mércy is dearer far to heaven than justice; And binds with the indissoluble bond Of grátitude; Oh spare my father, Roman; Róme can afford to have mércy on a rebel. The priestess' and the daughter's prayers, be daily Clúng to the Consul's knees; unpitying justice And never in Aventia's temple after Pined grádual and at last died brokenhearted. A stóne found at Aventicum affirms The truth of the Historian: "Here I lie, Júlia Alpínula, Aventia's priestess, Ill-fated daughter of ill-fated sire: The sire a rebel died by the hand of justice, The father's life her years were three and twenty." *JULIA ALPINULA: HIC JACEO. INFELICIS PATRIS INFELIX PROLES. DEAE AVENTIAE SACERDOS. EXORARE PATRIS NECEM NON POTUI: MALE MORI IN FATIS ILLI ERAT. VIXI ANNOS XXIII. MÁN, egoistic, for his own self lives, Thinking he lives for honor, virtue, fame, Lives only in and for the egoist Who in the name of love has made her slave. Walking from LIENZ to SILIAN in the PUSTERTHAL, July 21, 1854. A mán and woman travelling by the way Thy face before mine eyes while I am drinking. Walking from LIENZ to SILIAN in the PUSTERTHAL, July 21, 1854. ANNA MARIA PRIETH. * Ir was the morning of the Sunday first In Advent, when, four hours before daylight, Anna Maria Prieth, the widow, left House, home, and children five at Pitz and crossed Was found the body; the blessed spirit meanwhile - And évery Advent the officiating Cúrate of Graun confirms it from the altar Walking from RESCHEN in the VINTSCHGAU (German TYROL) to PFUNDS, Sept. 3, 1854. *The principal facts of this story are taken from an inscription on a stone on the banks of the lake of Reschen. |