Use of Monosyllables

The most remarkable instance of the use of monosyllables that I remember to have met with in our poets, occurs in the Fire-worshippers in *Lalla Rookh*. It is as follows:— "I knew, I knew it could not last— 'Twas bright, 'twas heav'nly, but 'tis past! Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never lov'd a tree or flow'r But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die! Now, too—the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew, To see thee, h…