Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 186.

Hands promiscuously applied,

Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.

The Waltz.

He who hath bent him o'er the dead

Ere the first day of death is fled,—

The first dark day of nothingness,

The last of danger and distress,

Before decay's effacing fingers

Have swept the lines where beauty lingers.