...return ! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn. The willows, and the hazel...thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear,...

...! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn. The willows, and the hazel...thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear,...

...Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme, and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn : The willows and the hazel...thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear,...

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...return ! Thee, shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn. The willows and the hazel...thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worn to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers that their gay wardrobe wear When...

...seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worn to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers...blows; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear!" After the fine apostrophe on Fame which Phoebus is invoked to utter, the poet proceeds:— " Oh fountain...

...song. Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear, Where were ye, Nymphs.when the remorseless...

...song. Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear, Where were ye, Nymphs,when the remorseless...

...song. Fanning their joyous leaves to thy sofi lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear, Where were ye, Nymphs,when the remorseless...

...seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear, Where were ye, Nymphs,when the remorseless...