...of a still more advanced season. The passage to which the objection applies is the following : — " Ye Valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...

...still more advanced season. The passage to which tho objection applies is tlio following: — " Yo Valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks. On whoso fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint cnamell'd eyes, That on...

...When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. * * * * * * * * Eeturn, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...

...(worthy of Amos or Ezekiel), the poem yet once more drops back to the mode of pastoral: Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams;...And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bels, and Flourets of a thousand hues. [132-35] The power of this long floral offering arises from...

...streams; retum Sicilian Muse. And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild...wanton winds and gushing brooks. On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks. Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...

...added next a twenty-line catalogue of colourful flowers, beginning self-consciously: Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams. Return,...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. (132-5) The flower passage (in the composition of the poem, a happy afterthought) is a pretty art1fice...

...Amaryllis: Return Sicilean Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild...wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart Star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf such...

...the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And...wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamel'd eyes That on the green turf suck the...

...streams; Return Sicilian Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither case Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild...wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart Star sparely looks, Thrown hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...

...concerns; and as a digression his gesture of reassertion is, in every sense, reactionary: Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; Return...the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. (Lycidas, 132-135) Once again the return of the speaker is marked by a...