336 The Poets\ Beasts. 



" Cowering hounds the board beneath 

 Are howling with piteous moan ; 

 While lords and dames sit still as death, 

 And words are uttered none ; " 



frequently in Scott, as — 



" Sudden the hounds erect their ears, 



And sudden cease their moaning howl ; * 

 Close pressed to Moy, they mark their fears 

 By shivering limbs and stifled growl ; " 



and regularly in every poet who, wanting a rhyme to owl — 

 and wolves failing— or a sound of dread to complete a 

 scene of general, eeriness, 



" Hears upon the mountain forest's brow 

 The death-dog howling loud and long." 



