...Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving . . . The lonely mountains o 're, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale. The parting Genius is with sighing sent, With flowered- inwoven tresses torn...

...leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 20 The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius 3 ' is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled...

...from the prophetic cell. 20 The lonely mountains o 'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of-weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius^ 1 is with sighing sent; With flow 'r-inwoven tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets...

...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 180 XX The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent,0 With flower-inwoven tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. XXI...

...loud cries, as of sorrow and astonishment. To this Milton alludes in his Hymn on the Nativity : — "The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament." (B) FAUNUS, GOD OF COUNTRY LIFE, AND OF THE LUPERCI. There was no lack of deities of country life and...

...they were kept in the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill4 and consulted in national emergencies. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament. Milton After many generations the oracles began to decline, and stories were told of how the gods had...