...— In verdant meads they sport, and wide around Lie human bones, that whiten all the ground ; The ground polluted floats with human gore, And human carnage taints the dreadful shore. . . . but there is no further elaboration of this ungracious aspect ; on the contrary, their song,...

...("In verdant meads they sporr, and wide around / Lie human bones, that whiten all the ground; / The ground polluted floats with human gore, / And human carnage taints the dreadful shore.") 103 Similarly, when Gulliver reaches his siren landscape of Lagado, he sees an equally dichotomous...