ulous within those few pages.

Mr. Shelley summons all kinds of visions round the grave of this young
man, who, if he has now any feeling of the earth, must shrink with
shame and disgust from the touch of the hand that could have written
that impious sentence. These he classifies under names, the greater
number as new we believe to poetry as strange to common sense. Those
are--

----"Desires and _Adorations_
Winged _Persuasions_ and veiled Destinies,
_Splendours_, and _Glooms_, and glimmering _Incarnations_
Of hopes and fears and twilight Phantasies,
And Sorrow with her family of _Sighs_,
And Pleasure, _blind with tears_! led by the _gleam_
Of her own _dying_ SMILE instead of eyes!!"

Let our readers try to imagine these weepers, and close with "_blind_
Pleasure led," by what? "by the _light_ of _her own dying
smile_--instead of _eyes_!!!"

We give some specimens of Mr. S.'s

_Nonsense--pastoral._
"_Lost Echo_ sits amid the _voiceless mountains_,[M]
And feeds her grief with his remember'd lay,
_And will no more reply_ to winds and fountains."
_Nonsense--physical._
--"for whose disdain she (Echo) pin'd away
Into a _shadow_ of all _sounds_!"
_Nonsense--vermicular._
"Flowers springing from the corpse
----------------------illumine death
And _mock_ the _merry_ worm that wakes beneath."
_Nonsense--pathetic._
"Alas! that all we lov'd of him should be
But for our grief, as if it had not been,
And _grief itself be mortal_! WOE IS ME!"
_Nonsense--nondescript._
"In the death chamber for a moment Death,
_Blush'd to annihilation_!"
_Nonsense--personal._
"A pardlike spirit, beautiful and swift--
A love in _desolation mask'd_;--a Power
Girt _round with weakness_;--it can scarce _uplift_
The _weight_ of the _superincumbent hour_!"

We have some idea that this fragment of character is intended for Mr.
Shelley himself. It closes with a passage of memorable and ferocious
blasphemy:--

---------------"He with a sudden hand
Made bare his branded and ensanguin'd brow,
Which was like Cain's or CHRIST'S!!!"

What can be said to the wretched person capable of this daring
profanation. The name of the first murderer--the accurst of God--brought
into the same aspect image with that of the Savi