...closely, and who were the best able to appreeiate their worth, were the persons who valued them most ? As killing as the canker to the rose,' Or taint-worm...flowers that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white thorn blows, Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. •• Cabul, 25th КотетЬет,...

...return ! Thee, shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, , , shepherds' ear. Where were ye, nymph?, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd...

...Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme, and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn : The willows and the hazel...blows; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. ***** * * * Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets...

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...seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worn to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers...blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear !" After the fine apostrophe on Fame which Phoebus is invoked to utter, the poet proceeds : — " Oh...

...seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worn to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers...blows; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear!" After the fine apostrophe on Fame which Phoebus is invoked to utter, the poet proceeds:— " Oh fountain...

...and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be teen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lay«. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm...the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds' ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd...

...seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers,...blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear," &c. "In tins poem," says Johnson, " there is no nature, for there is no truth." This is pretty well...

...return! Thee, shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes, mourn : The willows, and the...blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither...

...return ! Thee, shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, #1 #1 `)+ shepherds' ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd...