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National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner

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National Epics. The Ramayana.

Bibliography And Criticism, The Ramayana. Standard English Translations, The Ramayana. The Story Of The Ramayana.

Selections From The Ramayana. The Descent Of The Ganges.

The Death Of Yajnadatta.

The Maha-bharata.

Bibliography And Criticism, The Maha-bharata. Standard English Translations, The Maha-bharata. The Story Of The Maha-bharata.

Selections From The Maha-bharata. Savitri, Or Love And Death.

From "the Great Journey." * * * * * * * * * *

The Iliad. Bibliography And Criticism, The Iliad.

The Story Of The Iliad.

Selections From The Iliad. Helen At The Scaean Gates.

The Parting Of Hector And Andromache.

The Odyssey. Bibliography And Criticism, The Odyssey. Standard English Translations, The Odyssey. The Story Of The Odyssey.

Selections From The Odyssey. The Palace Of Alcinoues.

The Bending Of The Bow.

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Bibliography And Criticism, The Kalevala. Standard English Translations, The Kalevala. The Story Of The Kalevala.

Selections From The Kalevala. Ilmarinen's Wedding Feast.

* * * * * The Birth Of The Harp.

The Aeneid. Bibliography And Criticism, The Aeneid.

Standard English Translations, The Aeneid. The Story Of The Aeneid.

Selection From The Aeneid. Nisus And Euryalus.

Beowulf. Bibliography And Criticism, Beowulf. Standard English Translations, Beowulf.

The Story Of Beowulf.

Selection From Beowulf. Grendel's Mother.

The Nibelungen Lied. Bibliography And Criticism, The Nibelungen Lied.

Standard English Translations, The Nibelungen. The Story Of The Nibelungen Lied.

Selections From The Nibelungen Lied. How Brunhild Was Received At Worms.

How Margrave Ruedeger Was Slain. * * * * *

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The Song Of Roland. Bibliography And Criticism, The Song Of Roland.

Standard English Translations, The Song Of Roland. The Story Of The Song Of Roland.

Selections From The Song Of Roland. The Horn.

Roland's Death.

The Shah-nameh.

Bibliography And Criticism, The Shah-nameh. Standard English Translations, The Shah-nameh. The Story Of The Shah-nameh.

Selections From The Shah-nameh. The Raja Of India Sends A Chessboard To Nushirvan.

Zal And Rudabeh.

The Poem Of The Cid.

Bibliography And Criticism, The Cid. Standard English Translations, The Poem Of The Cid. The Story Of The Poem Of The Cid.

Selections From The Poem Of The Cid. Count Raymond And My Cid.

The Divine Comedy.

Bibliography And Criticism, The Divine Comedy. Standard English Translations, The Divine Comedy.

The Divine Comedy. The Hell. The Story Of The Divine Comedy. The Hell.

The Divine Comedy. The Purgatory.

The Story Of The Divine Comedy. The Purgatory.

The Divine Comedy. The Paradise.

The Story Of The Divine Comedy. The Paradise.

Selections From The Divine Comedy. Count Ugolino.

Buonconte Di Montefeltro.

Beatrice Descending From Heaven. The Exquisite Beauty Of Beatrice.

The Orlando Furioso.

Bibliography And Criticism, The Orlando Furioso. Standard English Translations, The Orlando Furioso. The Story Of The Orlando Furioso.

Selection From The Orlando Furioso. The Death Of Zerbino.

* * * * * The Lusiad. Montesquieu.

Bibliography And Criticism, The Lusiad. The Story Of The Lusiad.

Inez De Castro.

The Spirit Of The Cape.

The Jerusalem Delivered.

Bibliography And Criticism, The Jerusalem Delivered. Standard English Translations, The Jerusalem Delivered. The Story Of The Jerusalem Delivered.

Selection From The Jerusalem Delivered. Sophronia And Olindo.

Bibliography And Criticism, Paradise Lost. The Story Of Paradise Lost.

Selections From Paradise Lost. Satan.

Apostrophe To Light. Paradise Regained.

Bibliography And Criticism, Paradise Regained. The Story Of Paradise Regained.

Selection From Paradise Regained. The Temptation Of The Vision Of The Kingdoms Of The Earth.

Upon the gray rock mightily he smites,
Shattering it more than I can tell; the sword
But grinds. It breaks not--nor receives a notch,
And upward springs more dazzling in the air.
When sees the Count Rolland his sword can never break,
Softly within himself its fate he mourns:
"O Durendal, how fair and holy thou!
In thy gold-hilt are relics rare; a tooth
Of great Saint Pierre--some blood of Saint Basile,
A lock of hair of Monseigneur Saint Denis,
A fragment of the robe of Sainte-Marie.
It is not right that pagans should own thee;
By Christian hand alone be held. Vast realms
I shall have conquered once that now are ruled
By Carle, the king with beard all blossom-white,
And by them made great emperor and lord.
May thou ne'er fall into a cowardly hand."
Aoi.The Count Rolland feels through his limbs the grasp
Of death, and from his head ev'n to his heart
A mortal chill descends. Unto a pine
He hastens, and falls stretched upon the grass.
Beneath him lie his sword and olifant,
And toward the Heathen land he turns his head,
That Carle and all his knightly host may say:
"The gentle count a conqueror has died. . . ."
Then asking pardon for his sins, or great
Or small, he offers up his glove to God.
Aoi.The Count Rolland feels now his end approach.
Against a pointed rock, and facing Spain,
He lies. Three times he beats his breast, and says:
"Mea culpa! Oh, my God, may through thy grace,
Be pardoned all my sins, or great or small,
Until this hour committed since my birth!"
Then his right glove he offers up to God,
And toward him angels from high Heav'n descend.
Aoi.Beneath a pine Rolland doth lie, and looks
Toward Spain. He broods on many things of yore:
On all the lands he conquered, on sweet France,
On all his kinsmen, on great Carle his lord
Who nurtured him;--he sighs, nor can restrain
His tears, but cannot yet himself forget;
Recalls his sins, and for the grace of God
He prays: "Our Father, never yet untrue,
Who Saint-Lazare raised from the dead, and saved
Thy Daniel from the lions' claws,--oh, free
My soul from peril, from my whole life's sins!"
His right hand glove he offered up to God;
Saint Gabriel took the glove.--With head reclined
Upon his arm, with hands devoutly joined
He breathed his last. God sent his cherubim,
Saint-Raphael, _Saint Michiel del Peril_.
Together with them Gabriel came. All bring
The soul of Count Rolland to Paradise.
Aoi.
_Rabillon's Translation_

THE SHAH-NAMEH.

The monarchs of ancient Persia made several attempts to collect the historic annals of their country, but both people and traditions were scattered by the Arabian conquest. The manuscript annals were carried to Abyssinia, thence to India, and were taken back to Persia just when the weakness of the conquerors was beginning to show itself. The various members of the Persian line, who had declared themselves independent of their conquerors, determined to rouse the patriotism of their countrymen by the recital of the stirring deeds of the warriors of old Persia.