Show VILLAGES GONE Between Messina and Catania are arc area aroa a score of villages villages-or ville villages or cs-or or were until the great earthquake which earthquake which have held a greater measure of fame than half tho the largest cities upon the tho American continent says an exchange When was Sicily was Sicily was Grecian territory there was born at Syracuse upon pon the tho east Gast coast the poet pact who became becam known in the history of literature lit- lit as the greatest writer writer- of verse verse of the Al Alexandrian period lie His poetry is descriptive of the beautiful hillsides of tho the land torn and mangled by earthquake shocks of last week Students and lovers of the Doric idylls of T have made pil pil- pilgrimage grimage for a score of centuries to the tho villages which he made immortal His His lines are still models of ot the pas toral verse A touch of local color color appears in the song of Thyrsis Thyrsia Begin sweet maids begin the woodland woodland woodland wood wood- land song The voice of Thyrsis Etnas Etna's Thyrsis I Where were yo ye Nymphs oh where re when Daphnia Daphnis pined Forget Forg t sweet maids forget your woodland song From thicket now and thorn let vio violets lets spring Now let white lillies lilies dr drape pe the tho juniper And pines grow figs and na nature u o all go wrong For Daphnis dins dies Let deer eer pursue the hounds And mountain owls the ni nightingale |