...uttered a prayer for the passing soul of his King.* Thus says the Poet, in allusion to this event, ' Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright, The ihrieks of death through Berkeley's roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She wolf of France...

...of the people of Ireland. The clause was hateful enough to be described in the poet's language — " Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet...and verge enough The characters of hell to trace." Such were the true characteristics of this odious and fearful Act. But such an atrocious measure would...

...named the river that flowed around his prison, and the castle, that was the scene of his sufferings : " Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright ; The shrieks of death through Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king." How different is the imagery, when...

...named the river that flowed around his prison, and the castle, that was the scene of his sufferings : "Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright ; The shrieks of death through Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king." How different is the imagery, when...

...flood, the poet stood. OIL dreary Arvon's shore they lie, Smeared with gore, and ghastly pale. IV. EA VE the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of...shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, through Berkeley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ; She-wolf of France, with unrelenting...

...him wait ! Amazement in his van, with Flight combin'd ; And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, through Berkeley's roof that ring. v. i IGHTY Victor, mighty Lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies...

...the noble stanza of the poet — Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of England's race ; Give ample room and verge enough, The characters of Hell to trace. Taking this as the key-note to his song, the poet of the present lay has conveyed his stern remonstrance...

...tranquil slumber, so little known to the royal couch ; as our poet says in allusion to the event : Mark the year, and mark the night, • When Severn...shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death thro' Berkeley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,...

...With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line. n. 1. " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet...the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright Bllv to build their aerie among the rocks of Snowdon, which from thence (as some think) were named...

...parliamentary representation. CHAPTER VIII. " Ruin seize thee, ruthless king ! Confusion on thy banners wait ! Mark the year and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright, The shrieks of death, through Berkeley's roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king." GRAY. The House of PLANTAGENET continued...