Oh, the glory of the night, harbinger of his high emprise, his deathless glory!

The doctor and death I should have said; for that is the natural order, and generally speaking, the one is but the harbinger to the other.

As harbingers before the Almighty fly: Those but proclaim his style, and disappear; 40 The stiller sound succeeds, and God is there.

The Tramontana, as usual, had driven all perceptible vapor from the atmosphere, and the vault of heaven, in its cerulean blue, and spangled with thousands of stars, stretched itself above him, a glorious harbinger for the future to one who died in hope.