text:  It is true that in passing through the deteriorating process of translation into another language the lighter works suffer most and are more likely to lose that exquisite delicacy of expression and that transparent colouring of thought which is the more peculiar merit of the song or the fugitive poem--these tender blossoms run much more risk of losing in short their finer and more evanescent aroma than the more gorgeous flowers of the tropical regions of poetical imagining; but at the same time it must be remarked that the danger in such experiments is not on the side of the _author_ but wholly on that of the _translator_