...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...like a 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...

...it may well regard as prophecy the last stanza of the hymn to the memory of his brother bard : — The breath, whose might I have Invoked in song, Descends...shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose sails wen: never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ; I am borne darkly, fearfully,...

...many-colour'd glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. ***** My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far...Whose sails were never to the tempest given." The elements of Shelley's genius were rarely mingled. The grand in nature delighted his muse. Volcanoes...

...not long to be divided : I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar, While, burning through the inmost vale of Heaven, The soul of Adonais. like a star. Beacons from the abode where the eternal are. 6* It has been fulfilled. All of the gifted two that could die, lies now side by side in the same...

...mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. MISCELLANEOUS, TO E*** V«*». MADONNA, wherefore hast thou sent to me Sweet-basil and mignionette...

...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,...like a 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...

...stanza of " Adonais." It seems, as suggested by another, to have been almost prophetic of his fate. " My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far...I am borne darkly, fearfully afar. Whilst burning from the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where tho...

...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...like a 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...

...of The fire for which all thirst; now beams on me. Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. LV. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...me; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, for from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth nnd sphered...

...unreturning gods and they Like a river pass away ; Thou remainest such alway. And in the Adonais, — The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. Let these passages suffice, though I might multiply them ad infinitum. Return we to life and its...