...and when you appear with it as restored to its original splendour, I will carry on the quotation : * So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames on the forehead'" "0! enough,...

...one who admits the truth of revelation, With equal bad taste was the exquisite passage in Lycidas. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning...

...the elegy had been drowned at sea, and in the former case the poet soon underwent a like calamity. " Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more ; For...sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor; And yet anon repairs his drooping head, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, Flames...

...wear When first the white-thorn blows, — Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. But weep not, woful shepherds, weep no more For Lycidas, your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, SLEEP. 89 And yet anon repairs his drooping head,...

...wear When first the white-thorn blows, — Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. But weep not, woful shepherds, weep no more For Lycidas, your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, SLEEP. 89 And yet anon repairs his drooping head,...

...homeward, angel, now, & melt with ruth : And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And...

...time can never decay. How finely does he allude to the resurrection in the following lines : — " Weep no more ; For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, And yet anort uprears his drooping head, And...

...in this extract we must take notice, as it has a close resemblance to the passage in " Lycidas." " Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, if not dead." The expression in the two poems is the same, though there is no similarity in the general...

...should also remember that when a good man dies, he is not dead. " Sunk tho' he be beneath the wat'ry floor ; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning...

...melt with ruth ; And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep uo more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And...