MALTA.

Drawn by J. M. W. Turner, R.A.

"But not in silence pass Calypso's isles,*
The sister tenants of the middle deep;

There for the weary still a haven smiles,
Though the fair goddess long hath ceased to weep,
And o'er her cliffs a fruitless watch to keep

For him who dared prefer a mortal bride :

Here, too, his boy essay'd the dreadful leap

Stern Mentor urged from high to yonder tide; While thus of both bereft, the nymph-queen doubly sighed.

"Her reign is past, her gentle glories gone :

But trust not this; too easy youth, beware!
A mortal sovereign holds her dangerous throne,
And thou may'st find a new Calypso there.
Sweet Florence! could another ever share
This wayward, loveless heart, it would be thine:

But check'd by every tie, I may not dare

To cast a worthless offering at thy shrine,

Nor ask so dear a breast to feel one pang for mine.

(Malta and Goza). Goza is said to have been the island of Calypso. "The identity of the habitation," says Sir R. C. Hoare, in his "Classical Tour," "assigned by poets to the nymph Calypso, has occasioned much discussion and variety of opinion. Some place it at Malta, and some at Goza."