...all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...the turf that wraps their clay; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there I EXTRACTS FROM GRAY. THE BARD. The following Ode Is...

...the life of eternity." " After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well." " How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their Country's wishes blest ! When...mould , She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than iancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands, their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung,...

...runs the world away. Hamlet — Act 3, Sc. 2. SHAKSPEARK. Moon. 3! - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair...

...beard The fullness of perfected manhood bore. ODE. THE SLEEPING BRAVE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair...

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...those fine verses of Collins, which we will take the liberty to insert; " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...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...

...control, as in the perfectly wrought "Ode" written in the beginning of 1746: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...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,...

...his poems, such as How sleep the brave, have become very well known. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...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...

..."How sleep the brave," personified Honour and Freedom coexist naturally with other "forms unseen": By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there. Personification is thus a trope that elevates the natural...