...before them —calling to their parent for bread, and lo, he has nothing to give them but a stone— " Lo! Poverty, to fill the band That numbs the soul with icy hand, An^l slow consuming Age." And when I look forward to the future, I trust I see a prosped that his mind...

...defiled, And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest wo. Lo, in the vale of years beneath A grisly troop are seen, The painful family of Death, More hideous...numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. . To each his sufferings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan : The tender for another's pain, The...

...And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. Lo! in the vale of years beneath, A grisly troop are seen, The painful family of Death, More hideous...numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th'...

...And moody Madness, laughing wild Amid severest woe. Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A grisly troop are seen — The painful family of Death, More hideous...This racks the joints ; this fires the veins ; That ev'ry lab'ring sinew strains ; Those in the deeper vitals rage : Lo ! Poverty, to fill the band, That...

...And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest wo. v Lo! in the vale of years beneath A grisly troop are seen, The painful family of Death, More hideous...numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings : all are men, Condemned alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, The...

...And moody Madnesa laughing wild Amid severest wo. Lo! in the vale of years beneath A grisly troop arc g his bonnet and plume, And the bride-maidens whispered,...and the charger stood near, So light to the croupe To each his sufferings : all are men, Condemned alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, The...

...And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. Lo, in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen, The painful family of Death, More hideous...their queen: This racks the joints, this fires the veini, That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage : Lo, Poverty, to nil the...

...Maduess laughing wild Amid severest woe. Lo, in the vale of years heneath A griesly troop are seen, Tho painful family of Death, More hideous than their queen : This racks the joints, ihis fires the veins. That every lahouring sinew sirains, Those in the deeper vitals rage : Lo, Poverty...

...beneath A grisly troop are seen, — The painful family of Death,5 More hideous than their queen : 6 This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every labouring sinew strains, 1 These — some of these — in contrast with "this" and "those" in the next stanza. 2 Fury passions...

...Grim-visag'd, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart Lo, in the vale of years beneath, A grisly troop " KIXSMAN to grim and comfortless despair," etc. Capcll, in order to correct the supposed confusion...