...with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grirn wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...

...spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: LYCIDAS. 39 — But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...

...woolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed ; But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,...And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bels, and flourets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the milde whispers use Of shades,...

...on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...

...TRANSLATED INTO IDYLLIC VERSE, BY ALFRED TEMPLE ROBERTS, DEMY OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE. RETURN, Alphëus ; the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied...

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...1637." Possibly here Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use is a remote allusion...

...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...

...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...