(PRIOR: _A Better Answer_. ab. 1710.) Prior's anapests well illustrate the appropriateness of the measure for light tripping effects, such as are sought _vers de société_. See also the measure of Goldsmith's _Retaliation_, especially the passage beginning-- "Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can; An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man." The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning, The murmuring streamlet winds clear through the vale; The hawthorn trees blow in the dews of the morning, And wild scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. (BURNS: _The Chevalier's Lament_. 1788.) The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. (BYRON: _The Destruction of Sennacherib_. 1815.) (With three-stress:) Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy-gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be ador'd, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still. (THOMAS MOORE: _Believe me, if all those endearing young charms._ ab. 1825.) _four-stress dactylic_. After the pangs of a desperate lover, When day and night I have sighed all in vain; Ah, what a pleasure it is to discover In her eyes pity, who causes my pain! (DRYDEN: Song in _An Evening's Love_. 1668.) Of this song Mr. Saintsbury says that it is "one of the rare examples of a real dactylic metre in English, where the dactyls are not, as usual, equally to be scanned as anapests." (_Life of Dryden_, Men of Letters Series, p. 62.) Here, as almost always in English, the measure is catalectic, a final dactyl being instinctively avoided, except in short two-stress lines. Warriors and chiefs! should the shaft or the sword Pierce me in leading the host of the Lord, Heed not the corse, though a king's, in your path: Bury your steel in the bosoms of Gath! (BYRON: _Song of Saul before his Last Battle._ 1815.) Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King, Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing: And, pressing a troop, unable to stoop And see the rogues flourish and honest folk droop, Marched them along, fifty-score strong, Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song. (BROWNING: _Cavalier Tunes._ 1843.) Here the metre is varied interestingly by pauses. Thus in lines 1 and 5 the light syllables of the second foot are wholly wanting. _Five-stress iambic._ (For specimens, see Part Two.) _Five-stress trochaic._