...the waiul of an enchanter, rather than reared by human hands. Myst. of Udol. v. Í. p. 34. Byron. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, ite. See the rest of this beautiful passage, »s far as Such is the aspect of this shore, Tis Greece,...

...this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of'-death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last,...• Have swept the lines where beauty lingers) And marked the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits...

...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 day...danger and distress ; ( Before Decay's effacing fingers I lave swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air—- The rapture of repose...

...shore, Rush the night-prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay.! i>. 3. V<», X. Tt ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day...swept the lines where beauty lingers, ) And mark'd the mild.angelic air — The rapture of repose .that's there — The fixed yet tender traits that streak...

...beauty, but which is an instance of the extended simile in which this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers) And marked the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits...

...delight; and we cannot refrain from quoting the following highly wrought and characteristic specimen. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day...of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fmgers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture...

...inheritors of hell — 65 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...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 10 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...

...now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. " 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 of dangeY and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept tlie lines where beauty lingers;)...

...bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 70 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's...the lines where beauty lingers.) And mark'd the mild angchc air — The rapture of repose that's there— 73 The fixed yet tender traits that streak The...

...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...