. The Saturday magazine . e and slaughter, to their hapless preyVile, idol-gods pollute each shady wanton beauty melts in lawless love ;Whilst age and infancy lament in bleed, the victims of the impious train. Mustering his wrath, awhile his anger stayd ;Till full then- cup, the Lord of Heaven delaydTo his vengeance ; as the whirlwind sleeps,Ere oer the main with furious blast it burst at once, on earths astonishd raging tempest and tremendous rain ;Whilst pealing thunders heavens vast concave , sti-uck by lightning, rolling rocks descend ;
. The Saturday magazine . e and slaughter, to their hapless preyVile, idol-gods pollute each shady wanton beauty melts in lawless love ;Whilst age and infancy lament in bleed, the victims of the impious train. Mustering his wrath, awhile his anger stayd ;Till full then- cup, the Lord of Heaven delaydTo his vengeance ; as the whirlwind sleeps,Ere oer the main with furious blast it burst at once, on earths astonishd raging tempest and tremendous rain ;Whilst pealing thunders heavens vast concave , sti-uck by lightning, rolling rocks descend ;High heaves the oceans bed—the oerwhelming tideRushes against the mountains yielding side ;Tis vain for succour to those hills to fly,For now not een their loftiest tops are dry ;Beast, man, and city, share one common grave,And calm above them rolls the avenging wave;Whilst yon dark speck, slow floating, now beast or human life the sole remains. 44—2 92 THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE. [March 9, THE BAYEUX Specimen of the Bayeux Tapestry. The celebrated tapestry of Bayeux, which still exists,and is pubhcly exhibited at stated periods in thecathedral of the city, is a very curious monument ofthe state of the art of embroidering at the time ofthe Norman Conquest. It is a web of linen, nearlytwo feet in breadth, and 442 in length, on which isembroidered the history of that memorable expedition,commencing with the embassy of Harold fromEdward the Confessor, King of England, to WilliamDuke of Normandy, in 1065, and ending with thedeath of Harold, in the following year. The scenesof this busy period are successively exhibited, and con-sist of many hundred figures of men, horses, beasts,birds, trees, houses, castles, and churches, with in-scriptions over them explanatory of their meaningand history. This work is understood to have beenperformed under the direction of Matilda, consort toWilliam the Conqueror, and was not improbablyexecuted by the hands of English women
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