...sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling — Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around — Where...hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than theyGOLDSMITHS POETICAL WOUKS. While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape...

...fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each wep the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of...tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men, more murd'rous still than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape...

...sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where,...oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies. Far different these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the...

...But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; 350 Those poisonous fields, with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where...; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, 355 And savage men, more murderous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling...

...sweet forgetfulness. But I must take you, now, To those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where...to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake. I must carry you once more to Egmont Key, where I had rather an unpleasant encounter with a rattlesnake,...

...Massacre. Yet there may be another, European source: Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where...their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landschape with the skies....

...heretofore a primitivist, depicts Georgia in his 1769 poem "The Deserted Village" as a "horrid shore," Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The...prey, And savage men, more murderous still than they. The Recherches is a comparatively slim compendium of travel reports drawing heavily on Buffon. Whereas...

...clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they. 29 A further likely source — in this case for the "Egyptian" element in Fu-Manchu, along with a fascinated...

...clusters cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears...hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they.29 A further likely source — in this case for the "Egyptian" element in Fu-Manchu, along with...

...Traveller. In this poem the exile has no time to bemoan his lot and be "pensive," since he inhabits a place Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they. (11.353-6)' As we have seen, Mackay too was influenced by Goldsmith. Indeed, he opens his account of...