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So Pharaoh 'woke, and mus'd awhile, and then Soon as his sleep his dream returned again: Wherein he saw upon one stalk there stood Seven ears of corn exceeding rank and good, And seven others, with the east wind blasted, And withered, sprang up, and quickly wasted The seven good ears, and quite devour'd them: And Pharaoh 'woke, and lo, it was a dream.
It passes from a reflection on "the dreary fuimus of all things here" to the advice But "carpe diem," Juan, "carpe, carpe!" To-morrow sees another race as gay And transient, and devour'd by the same harpy. "Life's a poor player," then play out the play. It was the natural conclusion of the foregone stage of Byron's career.
Then thrice thy frantick votaries shall round Thy temple dance, with youth and garlands crown'd, In holy drunkenness thy orgies sound." While I was thus at prayers, an old woman, with her hair about her eyes, and disfigur'd with a mournful habit, coming in, disturb'd my devotions; when taking hold of me, she drew all fear out of the entry; and "what hag," said she, "has devour'd your manhood?
He being out of Sight before we miss'd him, and not coming up to us, tho' we staid a considerable time on the Road for him, we stuck up Sticks in the Ground, and left other Tokens to direct him which way we were gone: But he came not to us that Night, which gave us Occasion to fear some of the Heathens had kill'd him, for his Cloaths, or the savage Beasts had devour'd him in the Wilderness, he having nothing about him to strike Fire withal.
All these years I was down Long Island more or less every summer, now east, now west, sometimes months at a stretch. At 16, 17, and so on, was fond of debating societies, and had an active membership with them, off and on, in Brooklyn and one or two country towns on the island. A most omnivorous novel-reader, these and later years, devour'd everything I could get.
Their prevailing sentiment is an affectation of misanthropy, conveyed in such lines as these: Weary of love, of life, devour'd with spleen, I rest, a perfect Timon, not nineteen. This mawkish element unfortunately survives in much of the author's later verse. But even in this volume there are indications of force, and command.
"Evil spirits! of the deathbed call Of him who robb'd the widow, and devour'd The orphan's portion of unquiet souls Ris'n from the grave, to ease the heavy guilt Of deeds in life conceal'd of shapes that walk At dead of night, and clank their chains, and wave The torch of Hell around the murderer's bed!" Mowbray and Mr.
And Jacob knew the coat full well, and said, Now hath some evil beast devour'd the lad; Joseph is torn in pieces without doubt, For, too, too well I know this is his coat. He rent his clothes, and putting sackcloth on, He for a long time mourned for his son.
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