The divinities of the lakes, rivers, fountains, etc., were hoary river gods, slender youths, beautiful maidens, and sometimes children. The famous statue called "Father Nile" is in the Vatican at Rome. XLII Bacchus was worshiped very widely throughout the ancient world, and many festivals were held in his honor. The most noted were the Greater and Lesser Dionysia, the Liberalia, and the Bacchanalia. Bacchus is generally represented as crowned with ivy or grape leaves and bearing an ivy-circled wand (the thyrsus). He rides in a chariot drawn by panthers or leopards. Poems:-- Semele EDWARD R. SILL Alexander's Feast JOHN DRYDEN The Praise of Dionysus EDMUND GOSSE Triumph of Bacchus RODEN NOËL Sophron's Hymn to Bacchus WALTER S. LANDOR Prelude to Songs before Sunrise ALGERNON C. SWINBURNE XLIII As the ass was reverenced in Phrygia, the acquisition of ass's ears may not have been such a disgrace as we imagine. Ovid thus describes Midas' golden touch:-- "Whose powerful hands the bread no sooner hold, Than all its substance is transformed to gold; Up to his mouth he lifts the savory meat, Which turns to gold as he attempts to eat: His patron's noble juice of purple hue, Touch'd by his lips, a gilded cordial grew, Unfit for drink; and, wonderous to behold, It trickles from his jaws a fluid gold. The rich poor fool, confounded with surprise, Starving in all his various plenty lies." (Croxall's trans.) XLIV Fauns and satyrs have been favorite subjects in art and especially in sculpture. The most famous are the Faun of Praxiteles (Vatican, copy); the Dancing Faun (Lateran, Rome); Dancing Faun, Sleeping Faun, Drunken Faun, and Faun and Bacchus (National Museum, Naples); Sleeping Satyr, or the Barberini Faun (Glyptotek, Munich). The use of the Faun in literature is best known in Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun." Reference is made to fauns and naiads in Milton's "Lycidas." Robert Buchanan has two poems entitled "The Satyr" and "The Naiad." XLV Poems:-- Hymn to Pan JOHN KEATS The Dead Pan ELIZABETH B. BROWNING Hymn of Pan PERCY B. SHELLEY Cupid and Pan WALTER S. LANDOR Pan ROBERT BUCHANAN Pan and Luna ROBERT BROWNING Song of the Priest of Pan and Song of Pan in "The Faithful Shepherdess" FLETCHER XLVI Keats in "Endymion" alludes to Dryope thus:-- "She took a lute from which there pulsing came A lively prelude, fashioning the way In which her voice should wander. 'Twas a lay More subtle-cadenced, more forest-wild Than Dryope's lone lulling of her child." Poem:-- Dryope WALTER S. LANDOR XLVII