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 142 HUNGARIAN LITERATURE " Shall WI"go lo thi courl of MaUhias, my child 1 Or, ralhir f'ltum lo our own V1rl1s' wild ; To thi hom in our hamlll again 1 W1 may thn1," said thi worthy old man, "look for f'ISt " But forshadowing grilf, as h1 spakl, fillld his bf-1ast ; And sadly d•JJ.arlld th1 lwain. As th• flown, w blighud by inward d'"Y• Though lovily in aspet, must wilher away : So languishld Ilonka the fair, A voiding thi world, and absorb1d in hir gri•f ; From de•P hidden S/Wf'OW sh1 found no f'lli•f ; For mmory fid hlf' d1spair. So soon to its limit hir Iif•' s cuf'1'mt flowed, To th1 lomb fair Ilonka by S01'f'OW was bowed, Like a lily which droops to the ground. Virlue's image she show1d, and its too frqumt fau.- In thi lon1 house the king slands ; but, ah l Coms loo lau, For they rest 'neath the grav1 's hallowid mound.• In his lyrics, as in his epic poetry, Vörösmarty was the bard of lofty themes. His lyrical poems fali into two more classes. Some deal with simple themes in a simple style, and breathe a spirit of serenity. Such, for instance, is the poem entitled Bird Vo ices, t of which we give the first and last stanzas : Thus saith thi larlf in upward flight Whil1 circling lo the hlavenly height : " I ere• th11, breeze, that sw11ps thi lawn ; I greet the beaut1ous t;olden dawn ; Thi wintry snows af'l at an end, Bright ts thi sky, glad fillds •llnd ; Th1 grass grows gf'lln, and I will thn1 My littil st soon build with care. Soon UJill thi nwbom 1arlh appear ; t Lo:sw's "Magyar Poema."
 * BvTLER.'s " Hungarian Poems ."