not the nearer sun; whose umbrage chills
The murmuring ocean; whose _volcanic fires
A thousand nations view, hung, like the moon,
High in the middle waste of heaven_."

"The Missionary" (of which Byron writes in some playful verses to
Murray,

"I've read the Missionary,
Pretty! Very!")

contains much vivid description and interesting narrative; and "St John
in Patmos," if scarcely up to the mark of the transcendent theme, has a
good deal of picturesque and striking poetry. Perhaps the most
interesting of all his minor poems is that entitled "Childe Harold's
Last Pilgrimage," quoted, we remember, in Moore's Life of Byron. As
proceeding from one whom the angry and unhappy Childe had often insulted
in public and laughed at in private, it was as graceful in spirit as it
is elegant in composition. "Revenge," it has been said, "is a feast for
the gods;" and the saying is true if meant of that species of revenge
which gains its end by forgiveness. An act so noble and generous as the
writing of this, is calculated to set the memory of Bowles still higher
than all his poetry.

CONTENTS

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BANWELL HILL: A LAY OF THE SEVERN SEA:--

Preface 3

Part First 9

Part Second 20

Part Third 42

Part Fourth 61

Part Fifth 69

THE GRAVE OF THE LAST SAXON; OR, THE LEGEND OF THE CURFEW:--

Introduction 79

Introductory Canto 81

Canto First 87

Canto Second 102

Canto Third 111

Canto Fourth 123

Conclusion 137

Illustrations from Speed 139

ST JOHN IN PATMOS:--

Part First 145