...from all that charm'd before The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day;...their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the...

...But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; 350 Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where...snake; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, 355 And savage men more murderous still than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling...

...from all that charmed before The various terrors of that horrid shore Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day...cling, Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake...

...of mother earth, was soon lost in sweet forgetfulness. But I must take you, now, To those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake. I must carry you once more to Egmont Key, where I had rather an unpleasant encounter with a rattlesnake,...

...Massacre. Yet there may be another, European source: Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where...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....

...heretofore a primitivist, depicts Georgia in his 1769 poem "The Deserted Village" as a "horrid shore," Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The...their hapless prey, And savage men, more murderous still than they. The Recherches is a comparatively slim compendium of travel reports drawing heavily...

...account of what awaits the English emigrant on the shores of the Altama: Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day;...cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake...

...account of what awaits the English emigrant on the shores of the Altama: Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day;...cling; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned, Where the dark scorpion scatters death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake...

...realize the village ideal, a social order represented neither by the hideous wilderness: Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; nor by the European city where the swain flees only To see profusion that he must not share; To see...

...Traveller. In this poem the exile has no time to bemoan his lot and be "pensive," since he inhabits a place Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The...their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they. (11.353-6)' As we have seen, Mackay too was influenced by Goldsmith. Indeed, he opens...