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‘My daughter! with thy name this song begun— My daughter! with thy name thus much shall end, I see thee not,—I hear thee not,—but none Can be so wrapt in thee; thou art the friend [p.200] To whom the shadows of far years extend: Albeit my brow thou never should’st behold, My voice shall with thy future visions blend, And reach into thy heart – when mine is cold – A token and a tone, even from thy father’s mould. He proceeds in the same tone for several stanzas, and then concludes with this paternal benediction:— ‘Sweet be thy cradled slumbers o’er the sea, And from the mountains where I now respire, Fain would I waft such blessing upon thee, As, with a sigh, I deem thou might’st have been to me.’ 104 Having finished the analysis of this beautiful poem, we have the difficult and delicate task before us, of offering some remarks on the tone and feeling in which it is composed. But before discharging this part of our duty, we must give some account of the other fasciculus with which the fertile genius of Lord Byron has supplied us. The collection to which the Prisoner of Chillon gives name, inferior in interest to the continuation of Childe Harold, is marked, nevertheless, by the peculiar force of Lord Byron’s genius. It consists of a series of detached pieces, some of them fragments, and rather poetical prolusions, than finished and perfect poems. Some of our readers may require to be informed, that Chillon, which gives name to the first poem, is a castle on the lake of Geneva, belonging of old to the Dukes of Savoy, employed by them during the dark ages, as a state prison, and furnished of course with a tremendous range of subterranean dungeons, with a chamber dedicated to the purpose of torture, and all the apparatus of feudal tyranny. Here the early champions of the Reformation were frequently doomed to expiate their heretical opinions. Among the hardiest of these was Bonnivard, whom Lord Byron has selected as the hero of his poem. He was imprisoned in Chillon for nearly six years, from 1530, namely, to 1536, and underwent all the Download 1.07 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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