Before they come, and know’st how near they be.
“Else all at rest thou lyest, and the fierce breath
Of tempests can no more disturb thy ease;
But this thy strange resentment after death
Means only those who broke in life thy peace.”
This poem is founded upon the superstition that a tree which had been blown down by the wind gave signs of restlessness and anger before the coming of a storm from the quarter whence came its own fall. It seems to us full of the finest fantasy and expression.
The World.
“I saw Eternity the other night
Like a great Ring of pure and endless light,
All calm as it was bright;