...in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for...

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...To linii thy piercing ray, but fmd no dawn.* ' And a little after. * Season? return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or nocks or herds, or human luce divine; l}ut cloud instead, and ever-during dark. Surround me : from...

...advantages which we enjoy from it. Without that blessing our condition would be truly deplorable. . -With the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the...

...meditation for his solitary hours,— have been to him dark, — comfortless, — and disastrous ; • from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the...knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank. IN settled times, the power of the law and the dread of punish- in time of comment, may to a certain...

...To find thy piercing ray, but find no dawn." ' And a little after. " Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...rose, Or flocks or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, Surround me : from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the...

...love of sacred song ; to us Displaying nature, and the blissful scenes Of Paradise, though not to him returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. Sweet bard, that bears us softly now, and, smooth As that umvrinkled flood that slowly winds...

...Or sight of vernal Wooro, or swnjner's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine 5 But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the...and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut...

...note. Thus with Ihe year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-dnring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the...

...nock«, or herds, or human face divine ; " But cloud instead, and ever-during dark u Surround them, from the cheerful ways of men " Cut off; and, for...Presented with an universal blank. " Of nature's works, to them expung'd and rai'd, " And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." MILTON. LIVERPOOL: PRINTED BY...