...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...fingers Have swept 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...

...as a 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...

...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 The languor of the placid check, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not — wins not — weeps not— now—-...

...and 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...fingers Have 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...

...inheritors of hell — 65 So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! i He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 70 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...

...succeeded she withdrew with customary tokens of good- will. CHAP. VII. He who hath bent him o'er the (lend, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, And marked the mild angelic air, The rvpture of repose, that's there,. The fixed yet tender tracks,...

...subsided, one of the loftiest poets of this, or of any other age or country, alludes, when he says, — " 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...

...hath 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 effacing...marked the .mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, 75 The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but...

...inheritors of hell ; 65 So soft ,the scene, so formed 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, JO The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...