27.

"The rock half sheltered from my view,
By pendant boughs of tressy yew;
So shines my --'s forehead fair,
Gleaming through her sable hair."

"Oh! she was a faithful friend,
More dear than any sister!
As cheerful, too, as singing lark ;
And she ne'er left them till 'twas dark,
And then they always missed her."

I. "She has thrown her bonnet by,
And her feet she has been dipping
In the shallow water's flow;
Now she holds them nakedly
In her hands, all sleek and dripping,
While she rocketh to and fro."

2.

"Better one thorn pluck'd out, than all remain."

3. "The torrent thundered down the dell With unabating haste."

4.

5.

"But all Etruria's noblest

Felt their hearts sink to see
On the earth the bloody corpses,
In the path the dauntless

"The sincerest of flattery."

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28.

"For not by dark and eagle eye
The Hebrew shall you know,

So well as by this plaintive cry."

I. My lord, his Majesty bade me signify to you, that he has laid a great wager on your head."

2. "I pledge her, and she comes and dips Her in the wine,

And lays it thrice upon my lips."

3. "Stiffly sate he in his saddle, grimly looked around the ring;

Laid his lance within the rest, and shook his gauntlet at the king."

I.

29.

"Come to my arms, my boy! my dear-
In whom I live anew--my younger self!
; in thy opening cheek

And thou

I mark thy mother's bloom."

"She stands in the depth of the wood;

And panting to her feet

Fawning and fearful creeps

2. "The sociable spirit, that deigned To travel with Tobias."

3.

"And never woman yet, since man's first
fall,

Did kindlier unto man, but her deep love
Upbore her."

4.

5.

"And propt on beds of amaranth and
moly,

How sweet (while warm airs lull us,
blowing lowly),

With half-dropt eyelids still,

Beneath a heaven dark and holy,

To watch the long bright river drawing slowly

His waters from the purple hill.”

"And down the waste sand shores of

Where many a heathen fell; and on the

Mount of Badon

I myself beheld the king."

6. "Hast thou not worldly pleasure at

command,

Above the reach or compass of thy

thought?

And wilt thou still be hammering

treachery ?"