...note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut...

...nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased,3 And Wisdom at one entrance quite shut...

...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine6; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off,...universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance qaite shut out. M 1 A kind of blindness called "gntta ancient name...

...hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, •>- the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward,...

...might not have included near the beginning of Book III the famous, beautiful lines on his blindness: Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns...universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Can anyone doubt that the exclusion of these lines...

...nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine inward,...

...ILLUMINATION Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summer's Rose,...Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...

...beautiful lines on his blindness: Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or rhe sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal...universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Can anyone doubt that the exclusion of these lines...

...in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate,...

...individual preference and circumstance Snell described in his account of the origins of Greek lyric: . . . Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns...of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank. We cannot anticipate where the caesura will fall in these pentameter lines and so are ourselves going...