...poetry. The lines which follow thU allegory are notable for their melancholy feeling : " But, oh ! the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art...return, Thee, shepherd, thee the woods and desert cave*, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown And all their echoes, mourn ; Milton tells ua...

...danc'd, and Fauns with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, 35 And old Damcetas lov'd to hear our song. But, O the heavy change, now...caves With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, 40 And all their echoes mourn. The willows, and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen,...

...heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, And old Damsetas loved to hear our song. But oh, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art...desert caves With wild thyme and the gadding vine overgrown, And all their echoes mourn. The willows, and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be...

...danc't, and Fauns with clov'n heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, 35 And old Damoetas lov'd to hear our song. But O the heavy change, now...art gone ! Now thou art gone, and never must return i Thee, shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown,...

...HOUSE, lll.KSIiKIM gTRRKT. OXFORD 8TKEKT. TO RENIRA AND LUCY MARTIN. JAMES GORDON'S WIFE. CHAPTER I. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return ! JOHN MILTON. rilHE Rector of Eversfield was dead. -*- Five-and-twenty years he had laboured among...

...had ever known, were now buried in the grave with his youthful and too brilliant Herbert. " But, oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return ! " In the opening chapter of his own Sketches from Childhood, Mr. de Quincey describes in memorable...

...begins by weltering in heavy repetitions: But O the heavy change, now thou art gon, Now thou art gon, and never must return! Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and desert Caves, With wilde Thyme and the gadding Vine o'regrown, And all their echoes mourn. The Willows, and the Hazle...

...lament or celebrate a youth or age that yet shall not avail against the still unbroken universe of God. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, now thou art gone, and we are set adrift in th'eclipse. Any wastes, like Carthage burnd & salted, cities of despair, are better...

...satyrs danc'd, and fauns with clov'n heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, And old Damaetas lov'd to hear our song. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must retum! Thee shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves. With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown,...

...tone of the passage evoke the literary tradition of elegy. We are reminded, for example, of Lycidas: But O the heavy change, now thou art gone Now thou art gone, and never must return . . . (lines 37-8, my italics) and: Shall no more be seen (line 43, my italics)'7 and of Lear grieving...