Ah! what were the mystic terrors of the night, what the oppressive surroundings of this charnel-house of Nature, to the awful spectacle of this unmanned mind, this delirious echo of past guilt, past cowardice, past shame?

This bowl, a tiny crater among the weeds, showed like some paltry valley of Ezekiel, a charnel place of Herod's innocents, the battlefield of some babes' crusade.

There would he dream of graves, and corses pale, And ghosts that to the charnel-dungeon throng, And drag a length of clanking chain, and wail, Till silenced by the owl's terrific song, Or blast that shrieks by fits the shuddering isles along.

Whose livid lips, as now he moulds a grin, Like charnel doors disclose the waste within; Whose stiffen'd joints within their sockets grind, Like gibbets creaking to the passing wind; Whose shrivell'd skin with much adhesion clings

If we have such foul things, I say, within the circumference of our known selves, we must confess the charnel-fact to ourselves and to God; and if there be any one else who has a claim to know it, to that one also must we confess, casting out the vile thing that we may be clean.

Bobby's fingers still responded to the charnel feeling of cold, inactive flesh suddenly become alive and potent beneath his touch.

A voice comes out from these charnel-fields, A plaintive yet unheeded one: 'Died all in vain?

The 'errata', list inserted in some copies of that edition gives "Bunker's charnel hill."Ed.]

I am myself a horrid grave, My very heart turns grey; This charnel-hole,will no one save And force my feet away?

Many other equally curious stories are told of the mandrake, a plant which, for its mystic qualities, has perhaps been unsurpassed; and it is no wonder that it was a dread object of superstitious fear, for Moore, speaking of its appearance, says: "Such rank and deadly lustre dwells, As in those hellish fires that light The mandrake's charnel leaves at night.

A nearer approach showed him that it was the pest-cart, filled with its charnel load.

Leonardo painted the Medusa head, with its charnel pallor and its crown of writhing snakes, no less lovingly than the sweet-tender face of the Christ of the Cenacolo, and the beauty is not less, though of an opposite sort.

Back he went into the pestilential charnel-pit, where he crawled around on hands and knees and groped for half an hour.

Come away! Haste, while the vault of blue Italian day 5 Is yet his fitting charnel-roof, while still He lies as if in dewy sleep he lay.

For I thought that God would hear his prayer, And set the vessel free, For a dreadful thing it was to lie Upon that charnel sea.

Gentlemen, the Laughing Lass is a charnel ship.

And now I do remember, The old Egyptians at their banquets placed A charnel sight of dead men's skulls before them, With images of cold mortality, To temper their fierce joys when they grew rampant.

Young, innocent, loving, and beloved, they descend together into the tomb: but Shakspeare has made that tomb a shrine of martyred and sainted affection consecrated for the worship of all hearts,not a dark charnel vault, haunted by spectres of pain, rage, and desperation.

In every charnel breast Dead conscience rises slow.

A charnel wind sung on a moaningNo; Earth's centre was the grave from which it blew; Earth's loves and beauties all passed sighing slow, Roses and lilies, children, friends, the few; But so transparent blanched in every part, She saw the pale worm lying in each heart.

"When Lazarus left his charnel-cave," four stanzas, undated.

Instead of this stanza the first edition had these two: "Are those her naked ribs, which fleck'd The sun that did behind them peer? And are those two all, all the crew, That woman and her fleshless Pheere? "His bones are black with many a crack, All black and bare, I ween; Jet-black and bare, save where with rust Of mouldy damps and charnel crust