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...their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod 5 Than Fancy's...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 their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there! LXm. THE RAINBOW. John Keble ( 6....

...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...

...with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands,...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...

...Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Retums to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod, By fairy hands their...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...pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there. Personification is thus a trope that...

...The deliberate allegory signifies, in part, the gulf between literal and figurative significations: By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ... (7-10) To pose this a little differently: the gulf...