...as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in the shadiest cover hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. 6. 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 cloud instead,...

...her hate ; For what offence the queen of heaven began . . To persecute so brave, so just a man. Thus with the year . . Seasons return, but not to me returns . . Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn. RULE 2. Harmonic pauses increase the beauty of verse, and should be regarded when they do not injure...

...classes, than that in which he so feelingly and sublimely touches upon the loss of his vision: " 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 cloud instead,...

...done ; of which I will cite an example, together with the accompanying remarks of the writer. • Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day or the sweet approach of even or morn." " Here the casura, after the first semipede day, stops us unexpectedly, and forcibly impresses the...

...suffering. How touchingly has MILTON depicted his melancholy condition under this sad privation : " With the year Seasons return : but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or eight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead,...

...as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and. in shadiest covert hid, 30 Tunes her nocturnal 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, 35 Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine : But cloud...

...equaled with me in fate, So were I equaled with them in renown, 40. Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year, Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even and morn ; Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose ; Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ;...

...Nor ends with life, but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs. 70. 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 cloud instead,...

...numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal 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 cloud instead,...

...can say in the words used by our great Poet, to describe the condition of his later life — " 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...