...LYCIDAS." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse,3 And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their...valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, 1 *' Perhaps the * studious cloister's pale.' Pale, enclosure." —...

...fed, 125 But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowrets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low ! where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton...

...fed, 1 2 5 But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton...

...clandestinus oberrans Expleat ingluviem tristis lupus, indice nullo ? But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh. lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all...

...grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,...valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks ; Throw hither all...

...contagion spread: Besides what the grim Woolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed, But that two-handed engine at the door, 130 Stands...And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bels, and Flourets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low where the milde whispers use, Of shades and...

...grim Wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all...

...not fed, But swol'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw. Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; retum Sicilian Muse. And call the vales,...

...pastoral, Milton added next a twenty-line catalogue of colourful flowers, beginning self-consciously: Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. (132-5) The flower passage (in the composition of the poem, a happy afterthought) is a pretty art1fice...

...the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And...valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all...