The Penance of Hugo Author:Vincenzo Monti Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ' Companion of my joys and cares,'' he cry'd, " Rest here in peace, till, through yon concave wide The trump of doom recalls you from the grave J Light be ... more »tli' incumbent dust, and gently breathe Ye gales of summer ! on the bed of death, And with your holiest dews the border lave." " May no insulting sounds your rest profane ; May no malignant bosom still retain Its anger, when thy pulse forgets to beat. No—in a soil renown'd your lot is cast, For sacred honour fam'd, in ages past, And Virtue owns it still her favour'd seat." Ling'ring in anguish o'er his mangled clay The melancholy shadow turn'd away, And through the twilight grey pursu'd his guide. With slow, reluctant step, and look forlorn ; The playful infant thus is seen to mourn, When forc'd to lay its guiltless games aside. Viz. Rome. chapter{Section 47 And now the dewy Dusk began to fling Over the shadowy scene her fairy wing ; When the Romulean battlements below Mounting, the airy voyagers forsook ; When through the parting gloom a splendour broke From Peter's temple, like the show'ry bow. There, like an herald of celestial wrath, A fiery vision stood, that seem'd to breath A flame of holy indignation round. One of the train was he which John beheld Amid the seven mysterious lamps reveal'd Aloft in heaven, above the solar bound. Fierce were his kindling eyes ; his length of hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,t And, like a comet, seem'd around to shed, On its terrific undulations far, Disease, and fun'ral scenes, and deadly war, Where'er his flaming tresses seem'd to spread. Rome, when Uasseville had been killed. f Gray. chapter{Section 5His fiery falchion threw a sanguine light t More terrible appear'd the frown of night Through its...« less