...Arnold's thrice lovely Sohrab and Rustum, is not reminded of those admirable closing lines : — " The majestic river floated on, Out of the mist and...land, Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, Bejoicing, through the hush'd Chorasmian waste, Under the solitary moon ; — he flow'd Eight for the...

...on the open sands Southward, the Tartars by the river marge; And Rustum and his son were left alone. But the majestic river floated on, Out of the mist...starlight, and there moved, Rejoicing, through the hush'd Chorasmian waste, Under the solitary moon;—he flow'd Right for the polar star, past Orgunje,...

...on the open sands Southward, the Tartars by the river marge; And Rustum and his son were left alone. But the majestic river floated on, Out of the mist...starlight, and there moved, Rejoicing, through the hush'd Chorasmian waste, Under the solitary moon; — he flow'd Right for the polar star, past Orgunje,...

...The royal troops of Persia, horse and foot, Marshalled battalions bright in burnished steel. * * * But the majestic river floated on, Out of the mist...bright and large: then sands begin To hem his watery inarch, and dam his streams, And split his currents; that for many a league The shorn and parcelled...

...on the open sands Southward; the Tartars by the river marge. And Rustum and his son were left alone. But the majestic river floated on, Out of the mist...and hum of that low land, Into the frosty starlight, aird there moved, Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, Under the solitary moon. He flowed...

...poetical anodyn'e VOL. n. T for the pain which the tragic ending has, or ought to have, given : — " But the majestic river floated on, Out of the mist...starlight, and there moved, Rejoicing, through the hush'd Chorasmiam waste, Under the solitary moon ; — he flow'd Right for the polar star, past Orgunje,...

...call it a march, neither rapid nor slow, but exultant, and with a sense of irresistibleness : — " But the majestic River floated on, Out of the mist...Star past Orgunje* Brimming and bright and large." Music is so pervading an essence, that it is sometimes difficult to tell where its province ceases...

...shine upon the Aral Sea." Of course the intention may have been to make the flow of the Oxus — " out of the mist and hum of that low land into the frosty starlight," and through the " beds of sand and matted rushy isles," which make him " a foiled, circuitous wanderer,"...

...his Sohrab and Rustum, has also described the last stage of a river's career in graceful lines : — But the majestic river floated on, Out of the mist...Chorasmian waste Under the solitary moon : he flowed Eight for the Polar Star, past Orgunje, Brimming, and bright, and large : then sands begin To hem his...

...run smoothly, whose lives are hindered and foiled, who struggle blindly towards their home of rest; " But the majestic river floated on, Out of the mist...starlight, and there moved, Rejoicing, through the hush'd Chorasmian waste, Under the solitary moon ;—he flow'd Right for the pole star, past Orgunje,...