...added next a twenty-line catalogue of colourful flowers, beginning self-consciously: Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams. Return,...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...

...unworldly pastoral fantasy in which nothing exists except flowers, not even Amaryllis: Return Sicilean Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds...

...however, the protagonist is already dead, so in place of Edward King's voice we hear his elegist's: And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells, and Flourets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the milde whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds...

...Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk they streams; Return Sicilian Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither case Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use Of shades...

...concerns; and as a digression his gesture of reassertion is, in every sense, reactionary: Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; Return...the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells and Flowrets of a thousand hues. (Lycidas, 132-135) Once again the return of the speaker is marked by a...

...door, 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.0 Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past,0 That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian muse, And...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowrets of a thousand hues.0 Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use,0 Of shades and wanton winds,...

...thou honour'd floud, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds . . . and later: Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; Return Sicilian Muse. The allusion has the effect of reminding the reader that this is, after all, a pastoral. But Milton...

...that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return...use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple...

...Valachi, 1963 'You never stop being a priest. Or a mafioso.' Judge Giovanni Falcone Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian Muse ... Milton, 'Lycidas' Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xix 1 The Immigrant Generations: Italianamerican...