THE WEDDING RING. LET the pure unalloyed gold of this ring Within which thou shalt pass thy days secure, From all 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, Ye kings, wise, rích men, envy me. 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 Thréw herself, tearless: "Spare, Oh spare, my father; Mércy is dearer far to heaven than justice; 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 Officiated Julia, but away 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 daughter's supplication failed to save " 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, House, home, and children five at Pitz and crossed Cúrate of Graun confirms it from the altar Sank nót into the abysm but, upward borne 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. |