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Ye are green wood, see ye warp not. Look, our hall !Our statues !—not of those that men desire,Sleek Odalisques or oracles of mode,Nor stunted squaws of West or East ; but sheThat taught the Sabine how to rule, and she 65The foundress of the Babylonian wall,The Carian Artemisia strong in war,' The Rhodope, that built the pyramid,~ Clelia, Cornelia, with the Palmyrene_ That fought Aurelian, and the Roman brows 70Of Agrippina. Dwell with these, and loseConvention, since to look on noble formsMakes noble thro’ the sensuous organismThat which is higher. O lift your natures up : _ Embrace our aims: work out your freedom. Girls, 75Knowledge is now no more a fountain seal’d : 63. Odalisques, slaves in a Turkish harem.oracles of mode, those who set the fashion; authorities in mat-ters of dress.-. 64, stunted, morally and socially beaten down.she that taught the Sabine, Egeria, the wood-nymph, wholin-structed Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, and a Sabine bybirth, in civil and religious government. >__ 65. she the foundress, Semiramis, a legendary queen of Assyria, wholived many centuries before Christ; she is said to have built Babylon. 67, The Carian Artemisia, queen of Halicarnassus, who helpedXerxes inthe battle of Salamis (480 B.c.). 68. The Rhodope, another form of Rhodopis, an Egyptian, to whomwas wrongly attributed the building of the pyramid really erectedby Nicotris. 69. Clelia a Roman heroine, a hostage given by the Romans to LarsPorsena of Clusium, leader of the expelled Tarquins. She escapedand swam across the Tiber to Rome. sie ; Cornelia, who died about 110 B.c., was the daughter of ScipioAfricanus and the mother of the Gracchi, Tiberius and Caius. Shewas the ideal of Roman motherhood. : the Palmyrene, Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, defied Aurelian,Emperor of Rome, who seized her possessions. She was captured in274, and taken to Rome. 71. Agrippina, granddaughter of the Roman Emperor Augustus,and wife of Germanicus. She died in 33. 72-74, Cf. Shelley, Prince Athanase, II. i: “The mind becomes that which it contemplates,And thus zonoras, by forever seeing -Their bright creations, grew like wisest men,
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