...the elegy had been drowned at sea, and in the former case the poet soon underwent a like calamity. " Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more ; For...sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor; And yet anon repairs his drooping head, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, Flames...

...wear When first the white-thorn blows, — Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. But weep not, woful shepherds, weep no more For Lycidas, your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, SLEEP. 89 And yet anon repairs his drooping head,...

...wear When first the white-thorn blows, — Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. But weep not, woful shepherds, weep no more For Lycidas, your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, SLEEP. 89 And yet anon repairs his drooping head,...

...Bellerns old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount, Looks toward Namancos and Bayonu'a hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ; And,...hapless youth. Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep uo more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks...

...Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks towards Namancos and Bayona's hold Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth." Dr. Johnson is very much offended at the introduction of these Dolphins ; and indeed, if he had had...

...ineptior. — Virtutcs videt ipse suas Otlio ; iure superbit Vir unus ille ceteris sagacior. K, FF Lycidas. Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas...beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore...

...Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks tow'rd Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, angel, now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth." This, in my opinion, is a passage of surpassing beauty ; but if the poet had not gone beyond this point,...

...Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded Mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold, Look homeward, angel, now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth." We have notices of the Mount having been a hallowed spot 500 years before Edward the Confessor founded...

...Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded Mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold, Look homeward, angel, now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth." We have notices of the Mount having been a hallowed spot 500 years before Edward the Confessor founded...

...the words of Milton's lament over his clerical friend, lost in the same way, more applicable : — " Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas,...beneath the watery floor : So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore...