...ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed...charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let rny lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I might oft outwatch the Bear,...

...of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfeu sound, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the ayre will not permit, Some still removed place will fit,...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsie charm, To bless the dores from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be...

...far-off curfen sound, Over some wide-water'd shoar, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the ayre will not permit, Some still removed place will fit,...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsie charm, To bless the dores from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be...

...Allegro and Penseroso, what is remarked ; and us an illustration of this remark, what passage is given 1 Or, if the air will not permit, ^ Some still removed...Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ; Far from all reaort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors...

...ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar, Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp and midnight hour, Be...

...hear the far-off Curfeu sound, 18 19 Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar: Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen...

...poor, and pray for the dead." This is the more poetical bellman of Milton's ' II Penseroso : ' — " Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers...of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth ; Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm." Hcrrick, also, has given us the verses...

...hear the far-off Curfeu sound, 18 19 Over some wide-water'd shore. Swinging slow with sullen roar: the wheeli Of beryl, and careering fires between;...showery arch. He, in celestial panoply all arm'd Of bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen...

...counterfeit a gloom : Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm....lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold...

...ground, I hear the far-off Curfeu sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed...lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold...