...their country's wishes blessed ! When Spring,-with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. 2. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a...

...their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold« Returns to deck their hallowed mould. She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There HOKOÜR comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall a while...

...with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod 5 Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their...their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; 10 And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping...

...ever trod. 2. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there! LXm. THE RAINBOW. John Keble ( 6. 1792, d. 1866 ) was born near Fairfax, Gloucestershire, England....

...all their country's wishes blest! When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould; She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. We now step from the tomb to the house, the general appearance of which is known to every one. It commands...

...Jack of Newbury. This amiable quality is, likewise, thus beautifully alluded to by the same poet — " By FAIRY HANDS their knell is rung, By FORMS UNSEEN their dirge is sung." Their employment is thus charmingly represented by Shakespeare, in the address of Prospero — " Ye...

...all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping...

...their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Retums to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...is rung. By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray. To bless the turf that wraps their clay, 10 And Freedom shall awhile repair,...

..."How sleep the brave," personified Honour and Freedom coexist naturally with other "forms unseen": By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there. Personification is thus a trope that elevates the natural world by seeing analogues to human life in...

...all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. (Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746) Collins grew melancholic, and produced very little...