...as submitting to their banishment " to profoundest hell," was no fiction: — " The lonely mountain o'er And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn...

...steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping beard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius ia...

...steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-«yed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the...tresses torn, The Nymphs, in twilight shade of tangled thickets, mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The lars and lemures moan with midnight...

...steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the...is with sighing sent : With flower-inwoven tresses lorn, The Nymphs, in twilight shade of tangled thickets, mourn. In consecrated earth And on the holy...

...not melody enough for this age in O'Connell's last whine, and imagination enough in the Whig budget ? The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...pale. The parting genius is with sighing sent. With flowers, in woven tresses torn, The muses in dim shades of tangled thickets mourn. Yet, lest our irritabile...

...steep of Dclphoe leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn,...

...steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the...tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight...

...hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn,...

...Griechenlands — such as, perhaps, half unconsciously influenced Milton when he sang his Christmas Carol : The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...tresses torn, The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. But Julian, though not a man to sit down and pine over days that are no more, was no...

...mortalia corda Per gentes humilis stravit pavor ; . . . And so again in these lines of Milton : — The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore...tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. It will be noticed that in both these passages the mythological touch (which is far...