a puse invention from the promontory Bellerans, near Land's band. ramaveon was bake Mustere, near which was the cartle Bayona Must LYCIDAS.heap, and located 81

eady

And purple all the ground with vernal flow'rs.
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies,
The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine,

in N.rr. Spain.

The white pink, and the pansy freakt with jet,
The glowing violet,

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The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine ;
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,
And every flower that sad embroidery wears:
Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed,

And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, are $50
To strew the laureat hearse where Lycid lies. Grave
For so to interpose a little ease,

Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise,

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Ay me! whilst thee the shores, and sounding seas
Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurl'd;
Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides,
Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide
Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world; word of mecometests.
Or whether thou to our moist vows deni'd, arful prayert
Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, bormat giant 160°
Where the great vision of the guarded mount
Looks toward Namancos, and Bayona's hold; castle

Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth:
And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more;
For Lycidas
Sunk though he be beneath the watry floor;

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your sorrow is not dead, the object of jo

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed;

And yet anon repairs his drooping head,

your sorrow.

adom, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore 170

ef en Flames in the forehead of the morning sky:

So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,

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Through the dear might of him that walk'd the waves;
Where other groves and other streams along,
With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves,
And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, the
In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love.
There entertain him all the saints above,

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express.

grand and

tately

In solemn troops, and sweet societies,
That sing, and singing in their glory move,
And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more;
Henceforth thou art the genius of the shore,
In thy large recompense; and shalt be good
To all that wander in that perilous flood.
unskilful. Thus sang the uncouth swain to th' oaks and rills,
Il Pen. 7. While the still morn went out with sandals gray;.
He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,

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Hate or pipe With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: pastoral.
And now the sun had stretch'd out all the hills, 190
And now was dropt into the western bay;
Their shadout

At last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue:
To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.

II.

SONNETS.

recited

" The chore from the Electra of Curefise (0.1672g.), Phocion minsted at a banquet of thartans, as wrought upon them that they epares the city from "reime have"," We at Burifides coals influence Wee his greatest triumph (6t.) chose to sit with Jeeve; and

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Mary

"Where than great. I go." :Sir James Ley,

Zesturer

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Spartan

Ruth said,

made barl of Marlborough, Bi Heye L : President of the bonniel

Janne I. Dies March 14, 1629.

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was stoppes at Brentford, Nov. 15, although Obacks sur getting houssine of Brentford.

II.

SONNETS, 1642-1658.

III.

WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY.

three syllables

(Nov. 1642.)

CAPTAIN or Colonel, or Knight in arms,

Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize,

If deed of honour did thee ever please,

Guard them, and him within protect from harms:

carmina.

He can requite thee, for he knows the charms ie Verses,
That call fame on such gentle acts as these;
And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas,
Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms.
Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bow'r;
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when temple and tow'r and
Went to the ground; and the repeated air
house at theben.
Of sad Electra's poet had the power urifiou.
To save th' Athenian walls from ruin bare. utter destruction.

IV.

TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY.

(1644?)

ĽADY, that in the prime of earliest youth

In andoniau

Alexander
Pindart

Wisely hast shunn'd the broad way and the green,
And with those few art eminently seen,
That labour up the hill of heav'nly truth
The better part with Mary, and with Ruth

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