...of a new born rose, Which streams upon her stream, and glass'd within it glows, FilFd with the faco of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters;...change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountaius, parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away,...

...(Hazlitt's Dodsley, vi, 14). The dolphin was often introduced metaphorically in descriptions of beauty. Cf. Parting day/ Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues/ With a new colour . . The last still loveliest. Byron, 1818, NED. See note to Jonson, Alch. IV, i, 160, dolphin's milk....

...purple of a new-born rose, Which streams upon her stream, and glass'd within it glows, x-xix. Fill'd with the face of heaven, which from afar Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, 255 From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse. And now they change ; a...

...rainy season, when a reddish kind of earth is washed into the river. Evening approaches, and the — - parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray 1" We are approaching Djebail or Gebail, the supposed land of...

...purple of a new-born rose, Which streams upon her stream, and glassed within it glows, XXIX Filled with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down...its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, 255 Their magical variety diffuse. And now they change: a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains...

...Which streams upon her stream, antf glass'cl within it glows, Fill'd with the face of heaven, ivhich, from afar. Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues....parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang lot The last still loveliest, — till — 't is gone — and all is gray. Italia ! oh Italia ! thou...

...Which streams upon her stream, anJ ghiss'd within it glows, Fill'd with the face of heaven, 'vhich, from afar. Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues....mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphiu, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till...

...onward, mantled o'er with sober gray ; Nature in silence bid the world repose. The Hermit. T. PARNE1.U Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till— 'tis gone — and all is gray. Childe Harold,...

...odorous purple of a new-born rose, Which streams upon her stream, and glassed within it glows, Filled with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, 20 From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change; a paler...

...to watch the sun setting across the Mediterranean, softly repeating to himself Byron's lines : — " Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang...colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray." ' In home-life he was a pattern of courtesy. His servants...