147.]
[Footnote 8: Guido Guinicelli will always be less known by his own
verses than by Dante's calling him
------"father
Of me and all those better others
Who sweet chivalric lovelays formed."
_Purg._ xxvi. 97-99.
And Guido Cavalcanti, "he who took from this other Guido the praise of
speech," (_Purg._ xi. 97,) is more famous as Dante's friend than as a
poet.]
[Footnote 9: _Purgatory_, xxiv. 53-60.]
[Footnote 10: _Decamerone_, Giorn. vi. Nov. 9. _Logician_ is here to be
understood in an extended sense, as the student of letters, or _arts_,
as they were then called, in general.]
* * * * *
AT SEA.
The night is made for cooling shade,
For silence, and for sleep;
And when I was a child, I laid
My hands upon my breast, and prayed,
And sank to slumbers deep:
Childlike as then, I lie to-night,
And watch my lonely cabin light.
Each movement of the swaying lamp
Shows how the vessel reels:
As o'er her deck the billows tramp,
And all her timbers strain and cramp
With every shock she feels,
It starts and shudders, while it burns,
And in its hinged socket turns.
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