...the "Lycidas" — and to say that Kobert Burns will stand a comparison with John Milton. " But oh, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art...gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn : The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more he seen, Fanning their joyous leaves to...

...the "Lycidas" — and to say that Eobert Burns will stand a comparison with John Milton. " But oh, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art...gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn : The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more he seen, Fanning their joyous leaves to...

...say that Eobert Burns will stand a comparison with John Milton. " But oh, the heavy change, now them art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return...gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn : The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen, Fanning their joyous leaves to...

...From the glad sound would not be absent long ; 35 And old Damcetas loved to hear our song. But, 0, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art...return ! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods, and desert eaves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, 40 And all their echoes mourn : The willows,...

...We well know how Echo feeds upon the sweet strains of Bion ; how, also, for the shepherd Lytidas, " the woods, and desert caves With wild thyme and the...gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn." It cannot be presumed that so great a goddess is moved for the untuneful laity in such degree as for...

...lament or celebrate a youth or age that yet shall not avail against the still unbroken universe of God. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, now thou art gone, and we are set adrift in th'eclipse. Any wastes, like Carthage burnd & salted, cities of despair, are better...

...never must return!" (1. 38) — and then by transferring the mourning activity from himself to nature: "Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and desert Caves,/...gadding Vine o'ergrown,/ And all their echoes mourn" (11. 39-41). The blight is on nature, associated with the speaker only through the remote figure of...

...tone of the passage evoke the literary tradition of elegy. We are reminded, for example, of Lycidas: But O the heavy change, now thou art gone Now thou art gone, and never must return . . . (lines 37-8, my italics) and: Shall no more be seen (line 43, my italics)'7 and of Lear grieving...

...clov'n heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, And old Damaetas lov'd to hear our song. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must retum! Thee shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves. With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown,...

...and rural ditties; he dared to express the age-old sense of loss in language plain and repetitious: But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou...desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'crgrown, And all their echoes mourn (37-41) Echoes, indeed. Abandoned nature laments the departed...