...tumbled forth, Beaten and blown i' the dusty face of the air, from ATALANTA IN CALYDON FIRST CHORUS When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of raini And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Tbracian ships...

...Pain melted in tears, and was pleasure; Death tingled with blood, and was life. ('Dolores', 177-80) When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain . . . (Atalanta in Calydon, 65-8) Some complex Greek metres have been echoed in these combinations...

..."All I can think of is one by Swinbume," and he began it: "When the hounds of spring are on wmter's traces The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ..." He was a small guy with a red crewcut growing out raggedly and a spray of childlike greenish freckles...

...give honour, and to mine hounds good speed, And edge to spears, and luck to each man's hand. CHORUS When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, 70 For the Thracian ships and...

...ENGLISH (1812-1889) When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,...windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and the...