...their ineffectiveness that has led the speaker to break off his performance and to exclaim, “For what could that have done? / What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore. . . ?“ ¿ 8). What he can do, and very effectively, is to see and say just that and so disassociate...

...Orpheus bore, / I— The Muse herself for her enchanting son e —' Whom universal Nature did lament, g When by the rout that made the hideous roar, / His gory visage down the stream was sent, g Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? / Earlier in this paragraph the rhymes in the first seven...

...her wizard stream: d Ay me! I fondly dream - d Had ye been there - for what could that have done? e What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, / The Muse herself for her enchanting son e Whom universal Nature did lament, g When by the rout that made the hideous roar, / His gory visage...

...Orpheus bore, The Muse berselffor her enchanting son, Whom universal ¿:at:ire did lament, When k:¿' the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Dow,: The sw:;ti Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?” Milton ‘S ‘¿Lycidas. ‘¿ 4 ¿: ‘¿\ ¿ ¿...

...Fury (or Fate) and the failure of Orpheus' mother to defend him from the assaults of maddened women: What could the muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent. (11. 58-62) So important is this figure of Orpheus to Milton's project of selffashioning as a poet...

...Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me! I fondly dream RHad ye been there,S . . . for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly...

...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me! I fondly dream RHad ye been there,S ... for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly...

...yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me! I fondly dream RHad ye been there,S . . . for what What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly...

...according to Ovid it floated out to sea, still singing, an image Milton renders more savage in "Lycidas": "His gory visage down the stream was sent, / Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore" (62-63). The head was at last carried to the island of Lesbos and buried there with full honors, in...