 | Constancy - 1844 - 938 pages
...of the first 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...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness — The last of danger and distress ; Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...comparison of the same country to the human frame bereft of life :— [Picture o/ Modern Greece.'} lie nd he saw him thrown Into the deep without a tear...groan. The other father had a weaklier child, Of a so The last of danger and distress — Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 320 pages
...thrones, should dwell The freed 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...of the same country to the human frame bereft of life:— [Picture of Modern Greece.] lie who bath 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... | |
 | 626 pages
...themselves, whether for personal, domestic, sabbathschool, or congregational use. BEAUTY IN DEATH. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And mark'd the... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 422 pages
...utterance : " Median stress ": " Low pitch " : Prevalent " monotone and semitone " : Long pauses.) " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled, — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, — (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...Greece. Return in all thy simple state ; Confirm the tales her sons relate ! LESSON CVI. Greece. BYROB. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled, — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, — Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 494 pages
...thrones, should dwell The freed 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... | |
 | Rugby coll. of the deaf and dumb - 1845 - 186 pages
...we boasted of our one mile a minute travelling ? DEATH. Subject proposed by HB BTNGHAM. " He who has 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 fingers Have swept the lives where beauty... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the quick ear cannot follow her flight, And the flood is unstirred as the calm blue ether. GREECE.2 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... | |
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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 fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers... 
