,
If a dun it proved to be.
If it came not from a lover,
Sadly she her face would cover,
Hide her face and say in sorrow,
"Truly _he_ will come to-morrow,
For he knew, that man of science,
And I'm _almost_ twenty-three."

VI.

He deceived her, he deceived her,
Oh, that too kind man deceived her,--
He of compasses and lenses,
He of new-found influences,
He of the philosophie.
Oh the chatterer, oh the flatterer,
Oh the smatterer in science,
To whom all things clear should be!
Had he taken the old almanac,
That true guide to worldly wisdom,
He would have seen that there was something--
Some stray figure, some lost factor,
Something added the extractor--
Wrong in his chronologie,
In his learned chronologie.

MORAL.

There are few things, one, two, three,
In the earth, the air, and sea,
That the schoolmen do not know.
When you're going to catch a beau,
And a few like occultations,
In a few things here below,
Men of wisdom do not know;
And to them for these few items
It is never wise to go.

[Illustration: "HE OF THE PHILOSOPHIE."]

CHAPTER IX.

FIFTH MEETING FOR RHINE STORIES.

SEVEN NIGHTS ON THE RHINE:--WORMS.--LUTHER'S MONUMENT.--THE STORY OF
SIEGFRIED AND THE DRAGON.--MAYENCE.--BOAT JOURNEY.--STORIES OF THE
CASTLES ON THE MIDDLE RHINE.--THE WONDERFUL STORY OF THE
LORELEI.--KERNER.

Mr. Beal continued the narrative of travel at the fifth meeting of the
Club for the rehearsal of Rhine stories.

* * * * *

"We passed over a road along the right bank of the Rhine towards
Worms. We journeyed amid green forests, and past fields which had
heaped up harvests for a thousand years. Spires gleamed on the
opposite bank, and in the flat landscape Worms came to view, the Rhine
flowing calmly by.

"We stopped at Worms to see the cathedral and the Luther Monument. It
is a dull town. We recalled that it was here great Caesar stood, and
Attila drove his cavalry of devastation over the Rhine. Here lived the
hero of German classic song,--Siegfried. The cathedral has a
monumental history. In 772 war was declared in it against the Saxons.
Here was held the famous Diet of Worms at which Luther appeared, and
said,--

"'Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise. God help me.'

"The cathedral is of the style called Romanesque