...expected, therefore, this transaction widened this breach in their brotherly affection still more. They stood aloof; the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder. Esau, indeed, harboured revenge in his breast, and determined, when his father was dead, to put Jacob...

...tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realm! abore , And life i« thorny and youth is vain : And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness...To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood nloof, the ecars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A drrary sea now flows between,...

...vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake...remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I...

...tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his...

...tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it charic'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to...

...tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus itchanc'd, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain, And insult to...

...expired, but leaving them an age •« , The original, our readers may recollect, is as follows:— " They stood aloof, the scars remaining Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, > Shall wholly do away, I ween, ••» C A dreary sea now...

...lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and M>ntlt is vain; And to be wroth w ith one we Inve, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as 1 divine, W iiii Itoltind ;i:;tl Sir Leoliue. rn-li spake words of hipli di-dnin And insult to his...

...thorny ; and yonth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like maduess in the brain. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his...best brother; They parted — ne'er to meet again ! Bnt never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining; — They stood aloof, the scars...

...speaking ot the estrangement of two who "had been friends in youth ; — '* But never either fonnd another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like clifls, which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost,...