...Unblest the man, whom music wins to stay Nigh the cursed shore, and listen to the lay ; No more that wretch shall view the joys of life, His blooming offspring,...gore, And human carnage taints the dreadful shore. Fly swift the dangerous coast ; let every ear Be stopped against the song — 'tis death to hear. Firm...

...extra-Hellenic races, has wafted down to us a fragment of the foreign and cannibalistic old Siren-lore — In verdant meads they sport, and wide around Lie human...gore, And human carnage taints the dreadful shore. . . . but there is no further elaboration of this ungracious aspect ; on the contrary, their song,...

...is a dichotomous landscape, part "beautiful country" and part desert ("In verdant meads they sporr, and wide around / Lie human bones, that whiten all...gore, / And human carnage taints the dreadful shore.") 103 Similarly, when Gulliver reaches his siren landscape of Lagado, he sees an equally dichotomous...