...AND RESPECT, BY HIS GRATEFULLY OBLIGED AND SINCERE FRIEND, BYRON. THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. CANTO I. I. KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...

...AND RESPECT, BY HIS GRATEFULLY OBLIGEl) AND SINCERE FRIEND, BYRON. THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. CANTO I. I. KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, Where the rage of the vulture — the love of the turtle — Now...

...paragraph taken from Goethe by Byron, which forms the commencing stanzas of the Bride of Abydos : — " Know ye the land, where the cypress and myrtle, Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime-- Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppressed with perfume, Wax faint...

...the latter is terminated by a Trochee; the preceding foot is an Iambus ; the other feet are Anapests. Know ye the land where the cypress, and myrtle Are emblems of deeds which are done in their clime, Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...

...REGARD AND RESPECT, RY HIS GRATEFULLY ORLIGED AMD SINCERE FRIEND, BYRON. THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. CANTO I. KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...

...be passed over in silence. A striking example of this occurs in the four first introductory lines. " Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime — Where the rage of the vulture — the love of the turtle, Now...

...lines. They are now, we believe, very generally ascribed to the late Rev. C. Wolfe. Modern Greece. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...

...REGARD AND RESPECT, BT HIS GRATEFUt.tY OBt.IGED AND SINCERE FRIEND, BYRON. A TURKISH TALE. CANTO I. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...

...recognise as having been imitated by Lord Byron, in his well known introduction to the Bride of Abydos — Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...

...'Tis fitting for a broken heart, And falsehood cannot roach thee there. WD FROM THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ; Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melts...