...shepherd's ear. ***** * * * Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their hells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...

...that they grow not out of course.' And, by the side of this prose, place one passage from Milton : — 'Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades...brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Tlirow hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple...

...hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whis pers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks,...star sparely looks , Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal...

...Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 133 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...

...Milton. Listen to him : — Return, Sicilian muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys...hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes That on the green leaf suck the honey 'd showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose...

...past That shrunk thy streams. Return, Sicilian muse And call the vales, and bid them hither cost Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys...swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal...

...muse And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Te valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades...swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal...

...Return, ete., ie let us resume the pastoral style. He ealls on Alpheus, as eonneeted with Arethuso. Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint-enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suek...

...— " Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bell s, and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart sfar sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied...

...That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys...eyes, That on the green turf suck the honey'd showers, 140 And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The...