“Like the Caÿstrian bird.”

——Quæ Asia circum

Dulcibus in stagnis rimantur prata Caystri.

Virg. Georg. i. 382.

“With death-notes rife.”

——Ut olim

Carmina jam moriens canit exequialia cygnus.

Tabuit; inque leves paulatim evanuit auras!

Ovid. Met. xiv. 430.