COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY.

MAX MULLER calls mythology

An "Infantine Disease,"

Just as the croup or hooping-cough

Our own dear squallers seize.

He thinks a draught of Vedic forms,

A dose of Sanscrit root,

Have taught the baby Celts and Greeks

Their young ideas to shoot.

Bark with innate euphonic laws

Inherited from pa,

They naturally cried in roots

Of verbal "as" and "ar."

That "Ews, 'Opopevs, and Zevs,

With all of godlike fame,

By dint of shrewd analysis

Have each a Sanscrit name.

And with his suffix "vat" and "van,"

His "s" changed before "a,"

His etymology of words

Which never saw the day,

His desecrating hand entwined

In 'Aopwoirn's hair,

By some barbaric Aryan charm

He's changed into a mare.

Alas! the very god of Love,

Without the least remorse,

He's changed to a d - d Sanscrit word

That means a racing horse.

Z.