...wings as thine, And such a head between them. GREECE, AS IT IMPRESSED THE MIND OF THE POET IN 1810. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...the lines where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor...

...every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. GREECE. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, ) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak...

...yet to come', And hears thy stormy musick in the drum*. SECTION XII. Address to Greece. — BYRON. He' . . who hath bent him o'er the dead', Ere the...lines where beauty lingers',) And marked the mild', angelick air*, The rapture of repose' . . that's there', The fixed', yet tender', traits that streak'...

...Free from doubt and faithless sorrow ! God provideth for the morrow. " MODERN GREECE. BY LORD BYRON. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day ef nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...

...FIRST DEATH. How awful, yet not unfrequently how beautiful, how very beautiful the aspect of death ! " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Er'e the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; Uefore decay's effacing...

...and his brother Sleep ! ' &c. The mind may also revert to the noble passage in Byron's Giaour : — 'He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,' &c. — ' Thank Heaven, the crisis, The danger, is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last,...

...extended and elaborated simile is furnished by Byron's poem The Giaour, in the passage that begins with He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled. Here we read twenty-two lines of exquisite description before we come to the turn and the application...

...members, paid their " cans,"" and pronounced the following words from Byron's " Giaur " : — • " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death ia fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing...

...alone could express the majesty of Madame de Ravatz's face in death — and they only can tell it now. "He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before Decay's effacing...

...state, but was compelled to give up the vain search. Byron's poem on Greece illustrates the feeling: " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of life is fled, — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before Decay's...