Farewell! base earth, farewell! my soul is freed;
Far from its clayey cell it springs.”
It is remarkable, also, that Goethe represents Faust as in the very act of swallowing poison, to escape from the miseries of life, when the song of an Easter hymn, sung in procession, falls upon his ear, and charms away the thought of suicide.
[153] Vol i. p. 250.
[154] Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, p. 120.
Hac arte Pollux et vagus Hercules
Euisus arces attigit igneas.—Hor. Carm. iii. 3.
[156] We are indebted for the principal portion of the events mentioned in this sketch to the beautiful narrative lately published by the Rev. Giovanni Spillmann, S.J.
[157] The words soulier and savate mean shoe, and old shoe.