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Rh Sir Launcelot's "mighty shield," hacked and worn by dint of knightly combat, is said to hareThe Greek Herald, observing the effect of his news on Clytemnestra, and awed by "that brooding eye whose light is language," thus describes her reception of his message of Agamemnon's advent:When Clytemnestra finds Ægisthus failing her, and utterly belying her hopes of him, and of her own future in and through him, she bitterly exclaims:

Alexander Smith is not to have Night and the Stars all to himself;—rather he seems to have provoked to emulation them that are his fellows. Here is one of Owen Meredith's many commercings with the imagery of the starry firmament on high:

The pale-faced lady who awaited so wistfully "the Earl's Return," has this among other starry visions of the night:

Suddenly

At times a shooting star would spin

Shell-like out of heaven, and tumble in,