...fingers rude Scatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas...Lycidas ! he knew Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. * * * * * we were nurst upon the self-same bill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade and...

...fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due, For Lycidas...Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the meed...

...thrilling voice of the singer is hushed ; " For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his primp, Young Lyridus, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing : " "Peace to his memory! the graceful scholar! the eloquent speaker! the warm-hearted, all-loving,...

...the old old story told with more or less monotony of mourn fulness since the time of MILTON : — " For LYCIDAS is dead, dead ere his prime, Young LYCIDAS, and hath not left his peer." Here a moment in the full bloom and strength of Parliamentar vigour ; the next. " Comes the blind Fury...

...indeed they ever knew, was, in addition to being a statesman, a poet and a prose writer of distinction. Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. In the general mourning there will not be lacking kindly thought of the gracious lady, his helpmate...

...fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas...Lycidas ? he knew, Himself, to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the...

...fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year . Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, stines with that gift After the brunt of battle, can as easy Cause light again within thy eyes rhyme. 10 He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the...

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...fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Î He knew Himself to sing, ami build the lofty rhyme. lie must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,...

...fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ! For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime — Young Lycidasl"* LOOK, reader, once more with the eye and heart of sympathy, at a melancholy page in the...