ll not come to thee, Nor any help or aid can'st see, Unless you work industriously." Then he added - "Money I ne'er give, 'tis clear, Only help to thee, my dear!" Then the youth understood that the Moon, like God and Fortune, does the most for those who do the most for themselves. To be born in a full moon means to have an enlightened mind, and a high tide signifies an exalted intellect and full of thought. It is not enough to have a fine boat of Fortune. And it is said:- "Fortune gives and Fortune takes, And to man a fortune makes, Sometimes to those who labor shirk, But oftener to those who work."DIANA, QUEEN OF THE SERPENTS, GIVER OF THE GIFT OF LANGUAGES In a long a strange legend of Melambo, a magican and great physician of divine birth, there is an invocation to Diana which has a proper place in this work. The incident in which it occurs is as follows:- One day Melambo asked his mother how it was that while it had been promised that he should know the language of all living thins, it had not yet come to pass. And his mother replied, "Patience, my son, for it is by waiting and watching ourselves that we learn how to be taught. And thou hast within thee the teachers who can impart the most, if thou wilt seek to hear them;yes, the professors who can teach thee more in a few minutes than others learn in a life." It befell that one evening Melambo, thinking on this while playing with a nest of young serpents which his servant had found in a hollow oak,said, "I would that I could talk with you. Well I know that ye have a language, as graceful as your movement, as brilliant as your color." Then he fell asleep, and the young serpents twined in his hair and began to lick his lips and eyes, while their mother sang:- Diana! Diana! Diana! Queen of all enchantresses And of the dark night And of all...
