Its shadow in each heart.

In its swift course,

It waved its sceptre o'er the beautiful, —
And they are not. It laid its pallid hand
Upon the strong man, and the haughty form
Is fallen, and the flashing eye is dim.

It trod the hall of revelry, where thronged
The bright and joyous, and the tearful wail
Of stricken ones is heard where erst the song
And reckless shout resounded.

It passed o'er

The battle-plain where sword, and spear, and shield,
Flashed in the light of mid-day, and the strength
Of serried hosts is shivered, and the grass,
Green from the soil of carnage, waves above
The crushed and mouldering skeleton. It came,
And faded like a wreath of mist at eve;

Yet ere it melted in the viewless air

It heralded its millions to their home

In the dim land of dreams.

142. RAPID MOVEMENT.

Rapid Movement is used in the expression of lively, gay and joyous thought and exciting emotions emanating from joy or fear.

143. Examples: Joy.

67.

[From "The Bells." - Poe.]

Hear the sledges with the bells

Silver bells

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells

From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells!

Singing through the forests,

Rattling over ridges,
Shooting under arches,

Rumbling over bridges;
Whizzing through the mountains,
Buzzing o'er the vale,
Bless me! this is pleasant,
Riding on the rail.

Men of different stations
In the eye of fame,
Here are very quickly
Coming to the same;
High and lowly people,

Birds of every feather,

On a common level,

Traveling together.

Gentlemen in shorts,

Looming very tall;

Gentlemen at large,

Talking very small; Gentlemen in tights,

With a loose-ish mien; Gentlemen in gray,

Looking rather green.

Gentlemen quite old

Asking for the news;
Gentlemen in black,
In a fit of blues;
Gentlemen in claret,
Sober as a vicar;
Gentlemen in tweed,

Dreadfully in liquor.

Stranger on the right

Looking very sunny,

Obviously reading

Something rather funny. Now the smiles are thicker

Wonder what they mean? Faith, he's got the Knickerbocker Magazine!

Stranger on the left

Closing up his peepers; Now he snores amain,

Like the Seven Sleepers.

Ancient maiden lady
Anxiously remarks,
That there must be peril

'Mong so many sparks;
Roguish-looking fellow,
Turning to the stranger,
Says it's his opinion
She is out of danger.

Woman with her baby,
Sitting vis-a-vis ;
Baby keeps a-squalling,
Woman looks at me;
Asks about the distance,

Says it's tiresome talking,
Noises of the cars

Are so very shocking.

Market woman, careful

Of the precious casket,

Knowing eggs are eggs,

Tightly holds her basket; Feeling that a smash,

If it come, would surely Send her eggs to pot

Rather prematurely.

Singing through the forests,

Rattling over ridges,

Shooting under arches,

Rumbling over bridges;

Whizzing through the mountains,
Buzzing o'er the vale;
Bless me! this is pleasant,

Riding on the rail.

EXCITEMENT.

[From "Lady of the Lake."- Scott.]

"Now yield thee, or, by Him who made

The world, thy heart's blood dyes my blade!"

"Thy threats, thy mercy, I defy!

Let recreant yield who fears to die."
Like adder darting from his coil,
Like wolf that dashes through the toil,
Like mountain-cat who guards her young,
Full at Fitz-James's throat he sprung,
Received, but recked not of a wound,
And locked his arms his foeman round.

COMMOTION.

69.

[From "Mazeppa."— Byron.]

Away, away, and on we dash!
Torrents less rapid and less rash.
Away, away, my steed and I,

Upon the pinions of the wind,
All human dwellings left behind:
We sped like meteors through the sky,
When with its crackling sound the night
Is checkered with the northern light:
From out the forest prance

A trampling troop - I see them come;
A thousand horse, and none to ride;
With flowing tail and flying mane,
Wide nostrils, never stretched by pain,
Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein,