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came therefore to behold the tiger and the leopard tear the quivering 

 limb of the aged and the young, of the strong and the feeble, without 

 desire to rescue the helpless or succour the brave." 



Byron gives this beautiful picture of the gladiator dying in the Circus. 



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" I see before me the gladiator lie : 



He leans upon his hand his manly brow 



Consents to death, but conquers agony, 



And his droop'd head sinks gradually low 



And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow 



From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, 



Like the first thunder-shower; and now 



The arena swims around him he is gone, 



Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. 



He heard it, but he heeded not his, eyes 

 Were with his heart, and that was far away ; 

 He reck'd not of life he lost, nor prize, 

 But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, 

 There were his young barbarians all at play, 

 There was their Dacian mother he their sire, 

 Butchered to make a Roman holiday- 

 All this rush'd with his blood shall he expire, 

 And unavenged? Arise, yo Goths, and glut your ire 1" 



EDDYSTONE LIGHT-HOUSE. 



The Eddystone Rocks are supposed to have got this name from the 

 great variety of contrary eddies of the tide or current among them, both 

 upon the tide of flood and the tide of ebb. They are situated nearly 

 S.S.W., from the middle of Plymouth Sound, off the Coast of 

 Devonshire, in the south of England. The nearest land to the Eddystone 

 Eocks is the point to the west of Plymouth, called the Ram Head, from 

 which they are about 10 miles directly south. As these rocks were not 

 very much elevated above the sea at any time, and at highwater were 

 quite covered by it, they formed a most dangerous obstacle to navigation, 

 and several vessels were every season lost upon them. Many a gallant 

 ship which had voyaged in safety across the whole breadth of the 

 Atlantic, was shattered to pieces on this hidden source of destruction, as 

 it was nearing the port, and went down, with its crew, in sight of their 

 native shores. It was therefore of first rate importance that these 

 dangerous rocks should be pointed out by a warning light. But the 

 same circumstances which made the Ed d 1 stone Rocks so formidable to 



