Thalia Petasta Iterum; Or, a Foot Journey from Dresden to Venice. Described on the Way in Verse  (English, Paperback, Henry James II)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1877 Excerpt: ... And then along whose left bank slow ascending, Deep between pine-clad precipices dark, We reach at one the hotel zur Post at Huttau Opposite the bare, scald, English-looking church, And rest a while and lunch on bread and wine And coffee with vile chicory root embittered, Then forward up the hill between wide lawns Blue with campanulas or with ox-eye white, To Eben, harmless Eben, where we 're not Even so much as bayed at by the huge One-headed Cerberus of the hostel door: Fearless the traveller enters as he lists, Or fearless passes by--the dog 's of wood; Sole wooden hostel dog in Germany, Hostel dog sole in Germany who spurns The proverb, and his teeth shows without biting. Therefore I praise thee, Eben and thy wooden Cerb, in his wooden kennel with his bright Collar of brass and heavy iron chain. And so, without extravagant outlay Either of valour or of circumspection, We pass for once a German hostel door, And have behind us Fritzthal left, and Fritz. By the Enns watered, flanked upon the east By Lackenkogel's sugarloaf, the upland Valley of Flachau opens right before us; The issuing Enns turns east, and east our road Turns with the issuing Enns, and on to Radstadt; Bean fields on either side and chamomile The air perfuming, and cerinthe minor And eriophoron with white and yellow The green holms speckling. Radstadt walls and fosse, Fosse once, now sunken flower-and kitchen-garden At six receive us, and with bed and supper Accommodate, at Poschacher's ill served, Dear, and not over civil, inn zur Post. Friday, June twentysixth, at half past eight We cross the Enns and up the Tauernach's Right bank pursue our gradual sloping way Southward, our day's task to ascend the Tauern And on the further side descend to Tweng--Pray heaven yon fleecy clouds portend...