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...more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, 1 come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, Î ТГ ce the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, Remembrance...her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns th Gimpels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and...

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...not need the jar of such doggerel to enhance the charm of the familiar music that Tet once more, О ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter yonr leaves before the mellowing year. In the spring of 1G38, Milton was preparing to leave Horton...

...sere, I готе to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter yonr leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint...season due, For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Tonng Lycidas, and hath not left bis peer! Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing...

...stable Brisrht-harnessed3 angels sit in order serviceable. LYCIDA S." (ABRIDGED.) YET once more,4 0 ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy...berries harsh and crude, And, with forced fingers rude, (1) Yowngut -teemed— last created. (See note 4, p. 32.) (2) BriiM-ltarnased— equipped In bright...

...sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your loaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint and...season due, For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Toung Lycidas, and hath not left his peer ! Who would not sing for Lycidas? He knew Himself to sing...

...the Irish teas, 1037 : and by occasion foretells the r~t • corrupted clergy, then in their higlith. I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And....rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : 3 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season flue : For Lyciclas...

...Milton, and form one great charm of his poetry. Thus, in "Lycidas" he begins: — " Yet once more, 0 ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy...never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and rude." And again : — " 0 fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned...

...listen how a true poet begins on the same theme : " Tet once more, 0 ye laurels, and once more, Te myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint and sad occasion...