...hemlock dank, Stretched out its long and hollow shank, And stifled the air till the dead wind stank. Prickly, and pulpous, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starred with a lurid dew. And agaries and fungi, with mildew and mould, Started like mist from the wet ground cold; !' d,-, fleshy,...

...hemlock dank, Streteh'd out its long and hollow shank, And stifled the air nil the dead wind stank. And plants, at whose names the verse feels loath,...the place with a monstrous undergrowth, Prickly, and pulpoun, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starred with a lurid dew. And agaries and fungi, with...

...hollow shank, And stifled the air till the dead wind stank. And plants, at whose names the verse feds loath, Filled the place with a monstrous undergrowth,...blistering, and blue, Livid, and starred with a lurid dew. Spawn, weeds, and filth, a leprous scum, Made the running rivulet thick and dumb, And at its outlet,...

...plants, at whose names the verse feels loath, Filled the plaee with a monstrous undergrowth, Priekly, and pulpous, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starred with a lurid dew. Spawn, weeds, and filth, a leprous seum, Made the running rivulet thiek and dumb, And at its outlet,...

...reminding us of Shelley's very unfavourable sketch of the Fungus tribe — " And plants at whose name the verse feels loath, Filled the place with a monstrous...cold ; Pale, fleshy, as if the decaying dead With the spirit of growth had been animated. " Their mass rotted off them flake by flake, Till the thick...

...horrible catalogue of Shelley's Sensitive Plant, — "Plants at whose name the verse feels loath, 1'rickly and pulpous and blistering and blue, Livid and starred with a lurid hue " ; — all these in turn attract us through their sympathy, or taunt us by their horrible mimicry...

...stifled the air till the dead wind stank. And plants, at whose names the verse feels loath, Fill'd the place with a monstrous undergrowth, Prickly, and pulpous, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starr'd with a lurid dew. And agaries and fungi, with mildew and mould, Started like mist from the...

...stifled the air till the dead wind stank. And plants, at whose names the verse feels loath, Fill'd the place with a monstrous undergrowth, Prickly, and pulpous, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starr'd with a lurid dew. And agaries and fungi, with mildew and mould, Started like mist from the...

...hemlock dank, Stretch'd out its long and hollow shank, And stifled the air till the dead wind stank. And plants, at whose names the verse feels loath,...fleshy, as if the decaying dead With a spirit of growth liad been animated ! Spawn, weeds, and filth, a leprous scum, Made the running rivulet thick and dumb,...

...hemlock dank, Streteh'd out its long and hollow fihank, And stifled the air till the dead wind •tank. " And plants at whose names the verse feels loath. Filled...undergrowth, Prickly, and pulpous, and blistering, and bine, Livid and starred with a lurid dew. " And agarics and fnngi, with mildew and mould. Started like...