...the seraphs they assail'd, And, fii'd on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell; ains I He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness,...

...alone in its poetical treatment of the subject. We recall Byron s beautiful lines in the Giaour : " 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...

...remember¿d; some of it will be pestilence-breeding to the end. GREECE IN HER DECAY. (From the “Giaour.”) HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fledThe first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers...

...seraphs they assail'd, And, fix'd on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy 1 He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is iled, The first dark day of nothingness,...

...but the Philhellenic fire its author played a foremost part in kindling ; it cannot have forgotten : He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...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...

...and soul : Can I cease to love thee ? No ! Z<ujJ fnov, <ras ayairui. MODERN GREECE (From The Giaour) HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...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...

...with a great wakening light, And show'd the names whom love of God had bless'd, FROM "THE GIAOUR" TTE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...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...

...remembered ; some of it will be pestilence-breeding to the end. GREECE IN HER DECAY. (From the " Giaour.") 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...

...the ending languentis hyacinthI cf. 9. 477 n. 70. oui...] Cf. Byron, The Giaour ' He who hath beut 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.' 72. auroque...] ' stiff...

...full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know. LONGFELLOW, Sonnets. 5. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...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...