When the low-trampled reed, and the pine in its pride, Shall alike feel the hand of decay, May thy God grant that mercy the world has denied, And wipe all your sorrows away!

His bright creations sacred from decay, Like Nature's self, whose living form he drew, Though still the same, still beautiful and new.

Embalm'd in fame, and sacred from decay,

In this way bodies have remained several months without any symptoms of decay or producing any disagreeable smell.

As soon as it is discovered that the sage on which the skull rests is beginning to decay, the woman cuts a fresh bunch and places the skull carefully upon it, removing that which was under it.

He adds, however, that at the period of his visit to the river "the skulls and skeletons were scattered about in all directions; and as I was on most of their positions unnoticed by the natives, I suspect the feeling does not extend much beyond their relatives, and then only till decay has destroyed body, goods, and chattels.

The Civil War brought these courtly piracies to an end, and the decay of the Spanish power drew the more turbulent spirits of Europe and America to the Spanish main, so that for a time there was a diminution of European piracy in Indian waters.

her sweetest joys decay, They in the grave must sleep.

In many places the ground was crowded with fallen trees, in every stage of decay.

XIV. Blarney, so famous in Irish song and story, is situated about four miles north west of Cork, and was, within these few years, a thriving manufacturing village; but it no longer wears the aspect of comfort or of business, and appears much gone to decay.

(From the Italian.) Think not thy faults, my pretty scold, Like transient clouds will pass away; Thine image in the rose behold, Whose leaves fade ere the thorns decay.

We passed through Ft. Tejon with its adobe buildings already fallen or rapidly falling into ruinous decay.

I parted with thee one autumnal day, When o'er the woods the northern tempest beat The spoils of autumn rustling at our feet, And Nature wept to see her own decay.

Of the devastation and decay of Abury, the following data will afford some idea: The grand total of stones, included in the temples and avenues, was 650; in the original temples, 188.

Visit both during the decay of their systems, observe their feelings and tempers, view the followers at their funerals, count the tears on their graves; and, after such a comparison, in good time make your own choice.

Mr. Lysons says, "It is certainly not older than the fourteenth century, perhaps in Norden's time it had the appearance of great decay; the same building, nevertheless, repaired from time to time, still remains; looks no longer 'old and wether-beten,' and may still exist perhaps to be spoken of by some antiquary of a future century.

What makes another wise, leads me astray, Slow to discern the bad path I have trod: Hope fades; but still desire ascends that God May free me from self-love, my sure decay.

A fresh half-acre was accordingly broken up, within the crater, the cool of the mornings and of the evenings being taken for the toil; and, as soon as a bed was picked over, quantities of fish were buried in it, and left there to decay.

Everything in the garden had ripened, and much had been thrown out to the pigs and poultry, in anticipation of its decay.

In a month or two, should as much rain as usual fall, it was probable the sea-weed would be far gone in decay.

The rains had washed away the salt, or converted it into manure, as well as contributing to the more rapid decay of the vegetable substances.

Their setting sun still shoots a glimmering ray, Like ancient Rome majestic in decay: And better gleanings their worn soil can boast, Than the crab-vintage of the neighbouring coast.

Timber is there plentiful, and a dam of this character can be rapidly constructed, although probably not very durable, owing to liability to decay of timber.

In repairing the church in 1824, it was accidentally discovered, and carefully exposed; but it was so much injured that it fell into decay soon after drawings had been made from it.

Out of this newborn ardor grew two important poems, The Gods of Greece and The Artists; the former an elegy on the decay of Greek polytheism conceived as a loss of beauty to the world, the latter a philosophic retrospect of human history wherein the evolutionary function of art is glorified.