...thing around you breathes of the past, and of the ruins which time and disaster have left behind. " Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realms withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone, Lie deep within...

...renewed in such as thee: A shoot of that old vine that made The nations silent in its shade THE PAST. THOU unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round...reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit ih sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood,...

...renewed in such as thee : A shoot of that old vine that made The nations silent in its shade THE PAST. THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit ih sullenness and gloom, And glorious ttges gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood,...

...arms, And lay them down no more, Till we have driven the Briton Forever from our shore. TO THE PAST. Thou unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round...And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbrcatliing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom ; And glorious...

...create? * * * * Thou lov'st mankind! come, tell me then Lov'st thou the past career of men? Bulwer. Thou unrelenting past! Strong are the barriers round...ages gone, Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. WC Bryant. 476 PATIENCE. PATIENCE. DOWN! stormy passions, down! no more Let your rude waves invade...

...barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters sore and liist Hold all that enter thy unbrealhing rclgn. " Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullenness...its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the groan". And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. 127 " In thy abysses...

...past ! but in the hands of Bryant what a majestic entity it becomes, in that poem beginning — Thon unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy...domain, And fetters sure and fast Hold all that enter i by unbreathing reign. • What a splendid ideality is in this poem realised ! What multitudinous...

...found interest in this, look back into the past, — the " unrelenting past," — seeing " Far in her realm withdrawn, Old Empires sit in sullenness and...glorious ages gone, Lie deep within the shadow of her womb ! " it is my fault, and not the fault of the subject. From Egypt and her mummy, of which will...

...the barriere round thy dark domain. And fetters, snre and fast, Hold all that enter thy nnbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorioas ages gone Lic deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Yonth, manbood,...

...vitality to the spot, and have been associated with it in the days of its greatness and its power ? ' Thou unrelenting past ! Strong are the barriers round...and fast Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign.' Ford Abbey is one of the most perfect of the numerous remains of those magnificent conventual establishments...