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    lately terminated the perfumed and tiny note , or stood conspicuous ill the flattering verses of the gaudy album , which her fond and foolish friends regarded as a kind of graceful result to her € t finished " education , now stands coldly lettered on that marble slab , whilst those most dear are yet expecting her return to her far native land . Here lies the young poet , whose lays

    were withered , and whose full heart was broken , by the blighting hand of the anonymous critic . Upon an humble tomb , beneath a broken lyre , are inscribed the few but painful words , descriptive of the desolate feeling wherewith Keats , " the poet of all sweet beauty / ' rendered up his last sigh . Here too are deposited the remains of Shelley , who , as is well known ,

    perished in a storm in the Mediterranean whilst out on a sailing excursion , thus depriving the world of a rich harvest of the richest fruits of genius , of which a brilliant summer of blossom had given such abundant promise . His ashes , which were preserved from the funeral pile whereon his remains were burnt , lie beneath a simple stone , with the following inscription : —

    " Percy Bysshe Shelley , Cor cordium . Natus in Aug . 1792 Obiit 8 Jul . 1822 . Nothing of him that doth fade , But doth suffer a sea change

    Into something rich and strange . ' Such are now the perishable monuments erected to genius or worth , many of which are already decaying , and the names they record already partly obliterated ; whilst the Roman tomb around whose base the pigmy tributes are reared , the pyramid of Caius Curtius , stands in defying and conscious strength ,

    displaying the name of the Roman citizen it commemorates as sharpl y as though chiseled yesterday . But who h . e was , what were his virtues or his vices , his honours or his exploits , does not appear ; so that even this perennial mausoleum , apparently destined still to endure for ages , commemorates nothing but a name .

    u Let not a monument give you or me hopes , Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops . " I forget who it is that has observed upon this pyramid , which is but small in comparison to those of Egypt , being only 113

    feet high , that , "it is singular to observe how Time , disappointed of his usual means of destruction by the pyramidal shape , goes to work in another way;—that very shape affording a better hold for plants which have , by degrees , inserted tlieit roots , and , acting like wedges , have lifted and thrown

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 1o8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/61/