...but the Philhellenic fire its author played a foremost part in kindling ; it cannot have forgotten: He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...Have swept the lines where beauty lingers — And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that...

...unbounded Sea! tfeorge <SorDon LMM on 1788-1824 HE WHO HATH BENT HIM O'ER THE DEAD (From The Giaour, 1813) 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 wherejbeauty...

...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...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, 75 The fix'd, yet tender traits that...

...glorified by death. In "The Giaour," Byron expresses this view of death in the wonderful lines: He that hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers) Have marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that...

...to virtue. What sentimentalist of the Regency could command his duct of tears over such a passage as He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers,) . . . or refuse a thrill to the question Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems...

...dead," but he does not fail to give these lines to us in his selections of the best of Byron's poetry : He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak...

...this scrawl, but I am so hurried with the preparations for my journey, that you must excuse it." *] He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...mild angelic air, The rapture of Repose that's there, 1 Moore'a Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, vol. i, pp. 389-90. where I robbed the Bishop of Chrisso...

...to virtue. What sentimentalist of the Regency could command his duct of tears over such a passage as He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers,) . . . or refuse a thrill to the question Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems...

...the treetops beneath the crescent moon and evening star. ' ; . .-.,- ^'t*1- • „•».' • • "He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there — " Her voice trembled, sank into silence, and she went on reading to herself, Lady Melbourne continuing...

...thou 'It meet her In eastern sky. THOMAS I.OVEI.L BEDDOES. A PICTURE OF DEATH. FROM " THE GIAOUR." HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the linns where beauty lingers,) And marked the iiiilil angelic air, The rapture of repose, that 's there,...