...as a child sleeps, and so passed away. His last appearance was like that described by the poet — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild, angelic...

...the fair domain. It is as though the fiends prevail'd Against the seraphs they assail'd, And fixed, on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors...form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! i He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of...

...and more exquisitely finished, than any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry, ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...

...subsided, one of the loftiest poets of this, or of any other age or country, alludes, when he says, — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled .... .... Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the...

...succeeded she withdrew with customary tokens of good- will. CHAP. VII. He who hath bent him o'er the (lend, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, And marked the mild angelic air, The rvpture of repose, that's there,....

...fixed on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell ; 65 So soft ,the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, JO The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...

...heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell; 65 So soft lhe scene, so formed for joy j So curst the tyrants that destroy! He who hath bent...of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness j ^0 The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...

...— The beautiful, but still and melancholy Aspect, of the once busy and glorious Shores of Greece. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines vrbere oeauty...

...fixed 'on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! * He...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...

...without Meaning. . 16. The Finis, by Hogarth — Its Companion. The Shore of Athens. BY LORD BYRON. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...