 If dying mortals' doom they sing aright, No ghosts descend to dwell in dreadful night: No parting souls to grisly Pluto go, Nor seek the dreary, silent, shades below; But forth they fly, immortal in their kind, And other bodies in new worlds they find....  The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal - Page 4761907Full view - About this book
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1876 - 954 pages
...unkin mn. If dying mortals' dooms they sing aright, No glnMta descend to dwell in dreadful night t No parting souls to grisly Pluto go, Nor seek the dreary silent shades below ; lint forth they fly, immortal in their kind, Aud otlior bodies in new worlds they find. Thus life... | |
 | Richard Jefferies - 1896 - 262 pages
...and these of all mankind alone, The gods are sure revealed, or sure unknown, If dying mortal's doom they sing aright, No ghosts descend to dwell in dreadful...dreary silent shades below; But forth they fly immortal of their kind, And other bodies in new worlds they find; Thus life for ever runs its endless race,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1897 - 386 pages
...exposition of the teachings of the Druids. He says : CELTIC MANNERS. — MARRIAC.E OF EVA AND STRONGBOW. " If dying mortals' dooms they sing aright, No ghosts...; But forth they fly, immortal in their kind. And other bodies in new worlds they find. Thus life forever runs its endless race, And like a line Death... | |
 | 1897 - 412 pages
...souls do not die, but pass after death from one body to another." Concerning this, Lucan * sings: " If dying mortals' dooms they sing aright, No ghosts descend to dwell in dreadful night; Nor parting souls to grisly Pluto go, Nor seek the dreary, silent shades below; But forth they fly,... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1901 - 574 pages
...and these of all mankind alone, The gods are sure revealed or sure unknown. I f dying mortals' doom they sing aright, No ghosts descend to dwell in dreadful...Pluto go, Nor seek the dreary silent shades below ; liut forth they fly immortal in their kind, And other bodies in new worlds they find ; Thus life... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1902 - 392 pages
...tribe who singular religion love, And haunt the lonely coverts of the grove. If dying mortals' doom they sing aright No ghosts descend to dwell in dreadful...below : But forth they fly immortal in their kind And other bodies in new worlds they find. Thus life forever runs its endless race, And like a line death... | |
 | 1914 - 450 pages
...they sing aright No souls descend to Hades, in endless night, Nor after death to grisly Pluto go To seek the dreary silent shades below But forth they fly, immortal in their kind, And other bodies, in new worlds, they find. And life runs on, an endless race ; Death, like a line, does... | |
 | Harold Bayley - 1920 - 936 pages
...ARCHAIC ENGLAND [CHAP. Lucan, the Roman poet, alluding to the Druids observed — II dying mortals doom they .sing aright, No ghosts descend to dwell in dreadful...dreary silent shades below, But forth they fly immortal to their kind And other bodies in new worlds they find. FIG. 45. — From Christian Iconography (Didron).... | |
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