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...measured step on the stone below Clanked, as he paced it to and fro; And he saw the lean dogs beneath the Hold o'er the dead their Carnival, Gorging and growling...carcass and limb; They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripped the flesh, As ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh ; And...

...of workmanship—is the well-known picture of the scene under the wall in the Siege of Corinth :— He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival; They were too busy to bark at him ! Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb ; As ye peel the fig...

...at work, and it forcibly brought to my mind Byron's powerful lines on " The Siege of Corinth " — "And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er...carcass and limb, They were too busy to bark at him ! From a Tartar's skull they had stripp'd the flesh, As you peel the fig when the fruit is fresh, As...

...villages realise, and even surpass, that terrible scene recounted in the ' ' Siege of Corinth ' ' — And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er...dead their carnival — Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb, They were too busy to bark at him. From a Tartar's skull they had stripped the flesh,...

...soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! (W. Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel II, 1 ff.) And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival. Görging and growling o'er carcase and limb ; They were too busy to bark at him! From a Tartar's skull...