...verse our rugged but pithy and expressive English breathes all sounds, all melodies; "And now 'tis like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute, And...an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute." The superiority of the writers of the seventeenth century to those of our own day is due not less to...

...verse our rugged but pithy and expressive English breathes all sounds, all melodies; "And now 'tis like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute, And...now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mate." The superiority of the writers of the seventeenth century to those of our own day is due not...

...darted to the sun ; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mix'd, now one by one. Sometimes, a-drooping hem all. XXIX. Lord Marmion then his boon did ask; The palmer took on him the task, S seem'd to fill the sea and air, With their sweet jargoning ! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now...

...came back again Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky- lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the air With their sweet jargouiug. And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And now...

...sweet sound, Then darted to the Sun; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark...sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seem'd to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 't was like all instruments, Now...

...sounds already discussed, where we find metaphors drawn from a common stock of religious vocabulary ("And now it is an angel's song, / That makes the heavens be mute"), as well as from a hospitable shore landscape. From this point on, the rich sensorial language and swift-moving...

...blest:] not in LB1 345 gloss demons] daemons 7S77, 1828, 1829 350 For ... it] The day-light LBI 360 Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed...'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; 365 And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased; yet still the sails made...

...hears another music, angelic but natural: "Sometimes a-dropping from the sky / I heard the sky-larks sing; / Sometimes all little birds that are, / How...fill the sea and air / With their sweet jargoning!" (358-62). Antipodal to the slaying of the albatross, this loving sensitivity to the beauty and beauty-making...

...sweet sound, Then darted to the Sun; Slowly the sounds came back again. Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark...is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. .60 l"he lonesome Spirit from the south-pole carries on the ship av far ar the Line, in ohedience to...

...heaven's gate sings, / And Phoebus gins arise' [Cymbeline 2.3.20-1]. little birds make a sweet jargoning: 'Sometimes all little birds that are, / How they seemed...fill the sea and air / With their sweet jargoning!' [Coleridge, 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' 360-2]. slug-a-bed: 'Get up, sweet slug-a-bed' [Herrick,...