...affright us, and destroy. MODERN GREECE. 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...distress, (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The...

...his feelings is impossible. Reader, have you ever bent " o'er the Head, Ere the first day of death is fled — The first dark day of nothingness, The...danger and distress — Before decay's effacing fingers Hath swept the lines where beauty lingers, And mark 'il the mild, angel.c air, The rapture of repose...

..., So curst the tyrants that destroy ! 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 of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing lmgers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers ,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of...

...his feelings is impossible. Reader, have you ever bent " o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress — Before delay's effacing fingers Hath swept the lines where beauty lingers, And mark'd the mild, angelic air,...

...those beautiful lines : — " 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 mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there. Some moments, aye, one treacherous...

...those beautiful lines : — " 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 mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, Some moments, aye, one treacherous...

...the tyranU that < Irs troy ! He who hath b nt him o'er the dead(l) Ere the first day of death is Sed, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's eßacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture...

...tyrants that destroy ! He who hath b nt him o'er the dead(l) Ere the first day of death is fled, The 6rst dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's efuciug fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture...

...shows to answer exactly the Latin " invidens." Hermann's reading has been followed for the rest. f "The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress," says lord Byron, and so said (in part at least) Solon before him. But Aristotle, who was not a man...

...had bleached a beard now never to grow again. I confess I look with pain on burials and on deaths; on The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, when hopes and fears and tumultuous passions, all that agitates and afflicts and delights mankind,...