There's a far bell ringing
At the setting of the sun
And a phantom voice is singing
Of the great days done.
There's a far bell ringing,
And a phantom voice is singing
Of renown for ever clinging
To the great days done.
ALEXANDRIA—July 11, 1882. THE CONDOR ATTACKING FORT MARABOUT
FOOTNOTES:
[79] Ruskin, Notes on the Turner Collection, p. 80.
[80] Thornbury's Life of Turner, vol. i. pp. 335-336.
[81] 'She was towed up the river by two steam tugs; every vessel that she passed appeared like a pigmy.'—Gentleman's Magazine, 'Domestic Occurrences,' September 16, 1838.
[82] Ruskin, Notes on the Turner Collection, p. 81.
[83] The Téméraire, of course, was fading up the river, but the exigences of euphony no doubt required the inversion.