...of the environment, taking us far into the misty and uncertain future which has a sombre coloring. "The sun's eye had a sickly glare. The earth with age was wan. The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man." MHeb. i. 10-12. Our earth shows no symptoms of infirmity. It is still young, comparatively...

...Tliiit gave my spirit strength to sweop Adown the golf of Time! . . . The Sun's eye hnd a sickly gin re, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that, lonely man! ift ce ein furdjtbor fcfjhuirjcr Scfjinlen, im 9.'iufeum jit Stocrpool in ben buntelften...

...All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I saw a vision in my sleep That gave...Creation's death behold. As Adam saw her prime. The specular logic of the masculine expands the stature of its subjectivity by constricting the feminine...

...All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave...my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time! 1 su« i he last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime! The Sun's...

...dreaming to introduce the piece (respectively: 'I had a dream, which was not all a dream', 1. 1 ; and 'I saw a vision in my sleep, / That gave my spirit strength to sweep / Adown the gulf of time!', 11. 5-7). Byron's 'I had a dream, which was not all a dream" is a strong opening line, in which the...

...dreaming to introduce the ptece (respectively: '1 had a dream, which was not all a dream', l. 1 ; and 'l saw a vision in my sleep, / That gave my spirit strength to sweep / Adown the gulf of time!', ll. 5-7). Byron's 'l had a dream, which was not all a dream' is a strong opening line, in which the...

...poem — beautiful in some respects — " The Last Man" is a ludicrous illustration of this mistake. " I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold as Adam saw her prime." No doubt " The Sun himself must die," but that will not happen till the Life of the Sun, including...

...The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, ed. William Michael Rosseui (London: Moxon, 1871), pp. 261-5. I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulph of Time! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime!...