...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...

...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,...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou celestial...

...shadiest covert hid0 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,...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou celestial...

...Book 3: 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,...ever-during dark Surrounds me. from the cheerful ways of men Cutoff, and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me...

...Note. Thus with the Year 40 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,...face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented...

...blindness, and always in a tone of anguish and despondency characteristic of recent misfortune: — "... from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the...Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." It often depends on the surgeon...

...prophet, God himself. Before we confront God, however, we are told of Milton's own situation as a creator: Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. (3.40-50) If Milton is sequestered...

...at the beginning of the psalm. "August 8, 1653." 95 Paradise Lost, 3.45-47, in Complete Poems, 259. But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds...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.96 In Psalm...

...then, as the handicap serves instead to identify the poet more closely with the redeemed: But clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the...Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd. [Paradise Lost, 3-45-49] The challenge to Melville...

...Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal0 bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou celestial...