And flung it round his feverish head.
He felt her bosom’s icy touch,
And soon it lull’d his pulse to rest;
But ah! the chill was quite too much,
And Love expir’d on Reason’s breast.
Clocks.
The first Clock seen in Europe was a present from Haroun Alraschid to Charlemagne; and in the fourteenth century, Dondi of Padua was raised to the peerage for making one of an improved construction. The title, “Marquis Dondi del Orologio,” descended to the eighteenth century, and probably still exists.