...wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, 355 And savage men, more murderous still than they ; While...scene ; The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, 360 The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered harmless thefts of love. Good Heaven...

...scorpion gathers death around, — Where, at each step, the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake, — Where crouching tigers...flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies." In this rather uninviting sketch, it must be confessed that it is not easy to recognize the natural...

...men more murderous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies. Far different these from...scene, The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, ' To savage beasts who on the weaker prey, Or human savages more wild than they! ' Sir W. Temple, p....

...dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait...The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless love. Good Heaven! what sorrows gloomed that parting day, That called...

...scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers' wait...these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, Tliat only shelter'd thefts of harmless...

...by a brief inventory that recapitulates the sights and sounds previously evoked in greater detail: The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless love. . . . The "pictured scene" of the villagers' departure for foreign...

...dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait...flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies. I6 Gary ignores the items in this description that he probably assumed to be absent from Lower Canada...

...dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landschape with the skies....

...Deserted Village" as a "horrid shore," Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait...prey, And savage men, more murderous still than they. The Recherches is a comparatively slim compendium of travel reports drawing heavily on Buffon. Whereas...

...scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they. 29 A further likely source — in this case for the "Egyptian" element in Fu-Manchu, along with a fascinated...