...eminently anticipated the form of the Norman tower. Of one of these Byron says, — " There is * stern old tower of other days. Firm as a fortress with its fence...delays, Standing -with half its battlements alone." One of these tombs is the nucleus of the castle of St Angelo, others were incrnsted into the fortified...

...better spring , less bitter fruit being forth, XGIX. There is a stern round tower of other days , fi Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength displays, Standing with half its battlements alone , And with two thousand years of ivy grown , The...

...deep, even in the bc/som of the North ; So shall a bettor spring less bitter fruit bring forth. XUX. There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as...fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's batiled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy...

...better spring less bitter fruit bring forth. XCIX. There is a stern round tower of other days, (4!)) Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone, Such...eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time overthrown ; — What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so...

...hring forth. XCIX. There is a stern round tower of other days, (49) Firm as a fortress, with its fenee of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its hattlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, dying, The garland of eternity, where...

...Sown deep, even in the bosom of the North ; So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth. Fate? And yet how lovely in thine age of woe. Land...bow, Commingling slowly with heroic earth, Broke wa* this tower of strength '( within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid? — A womau's grave....

...spring less. bitter fruit bring forth. xeix. There is astern round tower of other days, (46) Firm asa fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's...strength delays, Standing with half its battlements a'one, And with two thousand years of ivy grown. The garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves...

...better spring less bitter fruit bring forth. XCIX. There is a stern round tower of other days, *9 Finn as a fortress, with its fence of s-tone, Such as an army's bafiled strength dt'l.ivs, Standing with half its battlements alntu-, And with two thous;rud yenrs...

...Marchese. He shrugged up his shoulders, and pointed at an old moss-grown edifice. It was a stem old pile of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone. Such as an army's bafflrd strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone. And with a thousand years of ivy...

...shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth. XC1X. There isa stern round tower of other days,49 Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baftled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements aloue, Aud with two thousand years of ivy...