...Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world — " But we should also remember that when a good man dies, he is not dead. " Sunk tho' he be beneath the wat'ry...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky !" Mr. Abbott's description generally has...

...time will dispense justice, and restore thir original splendor. V So sinks the day-star in the ocean's bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, tind with new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.* A fortunate few are always...

...hands, and join in its destruction. Turn into Latin Hexameters— Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky; So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,...

...shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas. . . . So the poet remained,...

...superseded: Weep no more, woeful Shepherds weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor, So sinks the day-star...Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head. (lines 165-9) Christ's nativity has made the classical tradition obsolete. The promise of resurrection...

...youth. Weep no more, woeful 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...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore 170 Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,...

...youth. Weep no more, woeful 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...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore, 170 Flames in the forehead of the moming sky: So Lycidas, sunk low, but mounted high,...

...shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. (165-71) Immortality, the reward of the...

...Theocritus, Milton envisioned his drowned friend Edward King's soul as a morning star: Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor, So sinks the day-star...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,...

..."beneath the watery floor," where Lycidas is, presages the spiritual resurrection of the dead man: So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head. Finally, the setting sun puts the world to rest as the swain sings — but not without the promise...