Saturnian : of the Golden Age when human life was innocently happy & spontaneously harmonious; Roman tradition placed it in the reign of Saturn, the god of agriculture, loosely identified with the Greek Cronus.
... am? It is perhaps a pity that the rhythm of the first three lines runs in such well-worn familiar channels. Is this intensified by the sing-song of the second line, which slipped into the Saturnian metre lengthened out by anapaests? The third line might possibly be taken as four dactyls followed by the spondee "day-wide" and the monosyllabic foot "sea". What do you think? And would the four ...
... League of Nations Ancient tradition believed in a golden age of mankind which lay in the splendid infancy of a primeval past; it looked back to some type or symbol of original perfection, Saturnian epoch, Satya Yuga, an age of sincere being and free unity when the sons of heaven were leaders of the human life and mind and the law of God was written, not in ineffective books, but on the tablets ...
... Taygetus' peaks and o'er Ida Naked and loosing my golden hair like a nimbus of glory O'er a deep-ecstasied earth that was drunk with my roses and whiteness. There was no shrinking nor veil in our old Saturnian kingdoms. Equals were heaven and earth, twin gods on the lap of Dione. Now shall my waning greatness perish and pass out of Nature. For though the Romans, my children, shall grasp at the strength ...
... Naked and loosing my golden hair like a nimbus of glory O'er a deep-ecstasied earth that was drunk with my roses and whiteness. Page 85 There was no shrinking nor veil in our old Saturnian kingdoms. Equals were heaven and earth, twin gods on the lap of Dione. Now shall my waning greatness perish and pass out of Nature. For though the Romans, my children, shall grasp at ...
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