...SWING. Engraved by Henry Cook ; from a Painting by W. Andrews 325 THE MIGHTY DEAD. BY CAMILLA TOULMIN. " The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns." BrBON. ERE beauteous earth had ever felt decay, When man first knew it for a resting-place, And this,...

...tender light, Which soften'd down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and fill'd up, As 't were anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. — 'T was such a night ! 'T is strange that I recall it at this time ; But I have found our thoughts...

...wide and tender light, Which softened down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and filled up, \ Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making...sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. Matthews observes, in his " Diary of an Invalid," " I drove at midnight to see the Coliseum by moonlight...

...Which softened down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and filled up, As 'twere anew, the gap of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still...heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old I The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. Matthews observes,...

...down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation, and till d up, As 'twere anew, the gaps of centories; Leaving that beautiful which still was so. And making...and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the grest of old 1 — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns."...

...neighbourhood of the ColUseum at Rome ; he talks of the influence it had upon his mind, until he says— • The place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old. The dead jet scoptred sovereigns that Hill rule Our spirits from their urni.' Are there no urns to animate us...

...well as by the stirring representations of Eeality ; and, by poetic pictures of past attachment, ' Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the shrine Becomes religion, and the heart runs o'er With silent worship. * * The dead still rule Our spirits...

...neighbourhood of the Colliseum at Rome ; he talks of the influence it had upon his mind, until he says — . •"The place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the firent of old, The dil:id yet seepteredsuvereigne that still rule Our spirits from ihr ir urns.' Are...

...concourse of the nations, and awake, from the sleep of centuries, the Roman people and the senate, with The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. In the first and second books, the reader is in Rome, from the second year of Claudius to the close...

...those which we accord to the great poets of antiquity, or the elder worthies of our own country — " the dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule our spirits from their urns 1." The thing, if it were desirable, would be impossible; for by no effort can we invest the present...