Hide, O, hide those hills of snow, Which thy frozen bosom bears, 1 The collection entitled The Passionate Pilgrim, &c., ends with the Sonnet to Sundry Notes of Music which we have numbered Malone adds to the collection this exquisite song, of which we find the first verse in Measure for Measure. (See Illustrations.) XIX. VERSES AMONG THE ADDITIONAL POEMS TO CHESTER'S LOVE'S MARTYR, 1601. LET the bird of loudest lay, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou, shrieking harbinger, Foul pre-currer of the fiend, Augur of the fever's end, To this troop come thou not nea 1 There is a curious coincidence in a passage in The Tem pest : "Now I will believe That there are unicorns; that in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix throne.' And thou, treble-dated crow, Here the anthem doth commence : So they loved, as love in twain Hearts remote, yet not asunder; So between them love did shine, 1 Can, knows. Property was thus appalled, That the self was not the same; Single nature's double name Neither two nor one was called. Reason, in itself confounded, That it cried how true a twain Whereupon it made this threne 1 THRENOS. Beauty, truth, and rarity, Grace in all simplicity, Here enclosed in cinders lie Death is now the phoenix' nest; And the turtle's loyal breast Leaving no posterity:'T was not their infirmity It was married chastity. 1 Threne, funereal song. |