text:  But in the earlier and more natural affections in the delineation of domestic grief in the rending asunder the parental or filial ties who has ever surpassed the pathetic simplicity of the Grecian bard? Where can we find such heart-rending words as Priam addresses to Hector leaning over the towers of Troy when his heroic son was calmly awaiting the approach of the god-like Achilles resplendent in the panoply of Vulcan and shielded by the AEgis of Minerva? But we know not whether three lines in the _Odyssey_ do not convey a still more touching picture of grief--so powerful is the wail of untaught nature