 HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And marked the mild angelic air, The...  St. George; Or, The Canadian League - Page 271by William Charles McKinnon - 1852Full view - About this book
 | P. C. H. - 1856 - 84 pages
...lifeless body of some loved child, if "As she bends her o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there," — Ask that parent if she would receive any consolation from such a dreary, gloomy gospel as should... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1856 - 768 pages
...the departed : — He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled ; * * * * Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there ; The fix'd yet tender traits, that streak The languor of the placid cheek ; And but for that sad,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...are meant. H 2 GREECE.1 HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled — Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...where beauty lingers ; And marked the mild angelic adr, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...BEAUTIFUL, BUT STILL AND MELANCHOLY ASPECT OP THE ONCE BUSY AND GLORIOUS SHORES OF GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death...marked the mild angelic air—- The rapture of repose that 's there—- The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And —... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1857 - 374 pages
...instance of the first kind. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, I "re the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last...marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...of Joshua : " San, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon." GREECE. 373 Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose, that 's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek — And but... | |
 | 1857 - 400 pages
...first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Had swept the lines where Beauty lingers), And marked...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there ; The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek : He, but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 450 pages
...wise, be just ; with will as fixed as Fate's, Advance ! D. y. M'CAETHT. LXVHI. — GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death...marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose, that 's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek — And but... | |
 | Ballyblunder - 1860 - 312 pages
...BESET HIM O'ER THE DEAD,' ETC. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | 1860 - 836 pages
..."Who that hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, Before decay's defacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,...marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there," etc. I have always believed that these splendid lines were suggested and drawn from... | |
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