...(Paradise Lost, Book 3rd.) Seasons return. but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n and morn, Or sight of vernal bloom. or summer's rose, Or flocks. or herds, or human face divine ; But clouds instead. and ever-daring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of man Cut off, and for the...

...Day, or the sweet approach of even and morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or (locks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead,...and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And Wisdom, at one entrance, quite...

...him. " Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround me."} * Gray, de Princip. Cogit. lib. iv 85—96. t Paradise Lost, Book 111. v. 1—12. $...

...note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me ; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for...

...exclaims, " Thus, with the year, Seasons return ; bat not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine." (" Paradise Lost," b. iii., 1. 40-44.) In the concluding stanza of this beautiful hymn, "...

...or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, j . Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, ,:,i n I Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;: But cloud instead, and ever-during daik .' Surrounds him! . . . • . MI' . The reflection is a natural one. He once made it himself:...

...note. Thus with the year Seasons return : but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...off, and for' the book of knowledge fair Presented whh a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite...

...the misery aud degradation which now envelope them. POOR BLIND JANE. " Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn....rose. Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But clouds instead, and ever during dark Surrounds me.'' Milton» POOR Blind Jane has frequently spent...

...note. Thus, with the year, Seasons return — but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented...

...years, drudging at his courses, and where, for want of money, he may exclaim with Milton, that — Ever-during dark Surrounds me : from the cheerful...and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank. r. L. iii. 45. Which is as much as to say that he is totally in the dark as to...