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many of whose hymns are found in the present hymn book
of the Church of Sweden.
39—40. The sentiment contained in these lines is fully
borne out in the foregoing poem, Mitt döda barn, a touching
expression of intense parental affection.
43—46. Though never suffering actual want, the poet
for several years after his marriage in 1847 made a very
meager living as a journalist, and the lines may be more
poetic than true. “During these years his bread was not
infrequently more than scarce, and want was often on the
point of crossing his threshold,” says J. A. RUNSTRÖM.
53—56. The poet faintly alludes to an attack of blindness
in his youth which left traces for life.
VIKTOR RYDBERG.
DEXIPPOS.
’The poem bears as its title the name of a Grecian
historian, who flourished at the time of the invasion of the
Goths, one episode of which is here described, the poet
dating the event 267 A. D.
1. Pallas” stad, i. e. Athens, whose tutelary goddess was
Pallas Athene.
8. örnar, the eagle-shaped figures used as standards. in
the Roman army. That emblem of imperialism had been
the ensign of the kings of Babylon and of the Ptolemies.
The Romans adopted it in conjunction with other devices,
but Marius made it the ensign of the legion, and confined
the other devices to the cohborts. It has remained to this
day the preöminent sign of power in coats of arms, whether
of monarchies, empires or republics. See U. S. seal and
ensigns.
järn, here, the swords and lances of the legions.
24. ’The Corybant priests of the goddess Cybele in
Phrygia, Asia Minor, worshiped by means of boisterous
music and frantic dances.
27. Befriarn Dionysos. Dionysus, the god of wine and
vineyards and of dramatic poetry, was styled Liberator
(from care). Note the effective application of the same
epithet in the personifications following.
39. som Dodonas gamla ek. The simile refers to the
famous oracle at Dodona, in Epirus, dedicated to Zevs.
’The oracular answers were supposed to be derived from the
Wwhispering of the breezes in the crown of a great sacred oak.
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