2. "What may it be, the heavy sound
That moans old Branksome's turrets round?"
—Idem, Lay, p. 21.
3. "Is it the lightning's quivering glance,
That on the thicket streams;
Or do they flash on spear and lance,
The sun's retiring beams"
—Idem, L. of L., vi, 15.
XVII. They use the forms of the second person singular oftener than do others; as,
1. "Yet I had rather, if I were to chuse,
Thy service in some graver subject use,
Such as may make thee search thy coffers round,
Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound."
—Milton's Works, p. 133.
2. "But thou, of temples old, or altars new,
Standest alone—with nothing like to thee."
—Byron, Pilg., iv, 154.
3. "Thou seest not all; but piecemeal thou must break,
To separate contemplation, the great whole."
—Id., ib., iv, 157.
4. "Thou rightly deemst, fair youth, began the bard;
The form then sawst was Virtue ever fair."
—Pollok, C. of T., p. 16.
XVIII. They sometimes omit relatives that are nominatives; (see Obs. 22, at p. 555;) as,
"For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise?"
—Thomson.
XIX. They omit the antecedent, or introduce it after the relative; as,