...forever. To them Byron's dream was indeed not all a dream — " The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." There were thousands who would scarcely have started to have heard the blast of the last trump, so...

...DARKNESS. BY BYRON. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...•swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; ilorn came and went — and came and brought no day, Ind men forgot their passions in the dread Jf...

...Cannot once start me. 3. I had a dream, which was not all a dream : The bright sun was extinguished; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. $. Ah! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a sev ret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation...

...state of the world, in which " The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in eternal space, Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." BYRON. 78 But be has not ventured to conceive a world tenanted with sightless occupants, or revolving...

...darkness, when • the bright sun was extinguished, And the stars did wander through the eternal spnco Rayless and pathless ; and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air," shows that all the dreadful effects came not from lack of light, but lack of heat; and that upon the...

...LOUD BYRON. 1. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream : — The bright sun was extinguish' d, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space,...dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chill' d into a selfish prayer for light. 2. And they did live by watch-fires ; and the thrones, The...

...The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Eayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind, and blackening,...dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light : And they did live by watch-fires and the thrones, The palaces...

...dream. The bright sun was extinguished; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Eayless, and pathless; and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went,—and came, and brought no day " The world was void: The populous and the powerful was a lump,—...

...in description of an imaginary darkening of the universe — u The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander, darkling in the eternal space,...air. Morn came, and went, and came, and brought no duy. And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation; and all hearts Were chill'd...

...DARKNESS. By LORD BYRON. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; And...