...went before. And such is Human Life ; so, gliding on, It glimmers like a meteor, and is gone ! ****** Our pathway leads but to a precipice ; And all must follow, fearful as it is ! From the first step 'tis known ; but — No delay ! On, 'tis decreed. We tremble and obey. A thousand...

...life. - - - These verses, and the notes we have appended to them, will eonvey our sentiments on the whole poem. Were it not exquisitely wrought, and laboriously...throughout, we should not think it worth minute and microscopal criticism: but it is on the finest mirrors that the smallest specks are seen. The next...

...wrought, That like the visions of a love-sick brain, Who would not sleep and dream them o'er again Î Our pathway leads but to a precipice ; And all must follow — fearful as it is. From the first step 'tis known : but — no delay '. On, 'tis decreed. We tremble and obey. A thousand...