...and that motionless form ! " Who that hath bent him o'er the dead. Ere the first day of death hath fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic...

...my faults;" —then placed the children safely in the boat, and plunged into Eternity. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death...of nothingness — The last of danger and distress; — (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild,...

...inheritors of hell; So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So cursed the tyrants that destroy ! 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...

...of the same country to the human frame bereft of life :— [Picture o/ Modern Greece.'} lie who hath him thrown Into the deep without a tear or groan....weaklier child, Of a soft check, and aspect delicate ; — Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild...

...inheritors of hell — So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild...

...day of death, and she almost unconsciously repeated in a half audihle voice the lines : He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death...of nothingness — The last of danger and distress ; Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic...

...comparison of the same country to the human frame bereft of life:— [Picture of Modern Greece.] lie as never, in his own walk, been excelled. That walk, however, was limited : fust dark day of nothingness, The l;it of danger and distress — Before decay's effacing fingers Hare...

...inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So cursed the tyrants that destroy! 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...

...bygone loveliness, and tears for her decay. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first dav of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last ol* danger and distress ; Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where heanty lingers,...

...scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy! ANCIENT AND MODERN GREECE. HE wtD hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The lirst dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have...