...of cold mortahty. The breath whose might I have invoked in so .g Descends on me ; my spirit's bnrk is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. THE CRUCIFIXION. PB SRELLEV. Imitated from the Italian of Crescembinii I ASKED the Heavens;—" What...

...author: "The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Par from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.1* Shelley. III. The continuance of grief is like that of clouds. When it is very serene, it soon...

...trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered .-kit's are riven : I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. PB SHELLEY. THE CRUCIFIXION. Imitated from the Italian of Crescembini. I ASKED the Heavens ; — "...

...things. ii. The last lines of the Adonais ! how singularly do they adumbrate the fate of their author: " The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.4 Shelley. m. The continuance of grief is like that of clouds. When it is very serene, it soon...

...has remarked — with words almost prophetic of his own approaching fate. "The breath, whose might 1 have invoked in song, Descends on me : my spirit's...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." At no period of Shelley's life did he enjoy good health ; and v.'hen he and Byron lived in the same...

...shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose sails were never to the tempest given. The massy earth, the sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are." Let us hope that in the crisis ofthat terrible storm, when his bark did go down, there was time given...

...lives, so in their deaths they were not long to be divided. I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar, While, burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are. It has been fulfilled. All of the gifted two that could die, lies now side by side in the same churchyard,...

...of where it had been* — who but will regard as a prophecy the last stanza of the " Adonaial" Tho breath, whose might I have invoked in song. Descends...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal arc. * Captain Roberts watched the vessel with his glas* from the top of the light-house of Leghorn,...

...the last stanza of the Adonais ? — ' The breath, whose might I have invoiced in song, Descends upon me : my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore,...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.'" LORD BYRON. IN The Rural Life of England I have already recorded my visits to two of the most interesting...

...death can join together." And then— " The massy earth and sphered skies are riven; I am borne darlly, fearfully afar; Whilst, burning through the inmost...star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are." But what this " star " and this " abode " are meant —though most unfaithfully even as figures—to...