...Examinations are here subjoined, along with the Answers to some of the Questions. LITERATURE. Poetry. " Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high...lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold...

...Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsie charm, To bless the dores from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely towre, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphear The spirit of Plato...

...Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the belman's2 drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some...oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold 1 ' Cynthia : ' the...

...Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some...oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere 246 IL PEKSEROSO. The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold...

...Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the belman's2 drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some...oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold 1 ' Cynthia : ' the...

...Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high...oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or vl:ut vast regions hold. The immortn! mind...

...Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high,...lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold...

...in the tail of the Little Bear is the Polestar, or Cynosure (dog's tail). Illustrative. Milton's " Let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outmatch the Bear " ( II Penseroso) ; and his " Where perhaps some beauty lies The cynosure of neighbouring...

...anticipates poems 109-110.) Faint consolation for a mood as gloomy as that in Milton's "II Penseroso": Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely Tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . . . Du Fu's poem is distinguished by a consummate mingling of scene and response. Our poet's soul...

...Little Bear move round and round in heaven, but never sink, as the other stars do, beneath the ocean. Let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . . . And Prometheus, in JR Lowell's poem, says: One after one the stars have risen and set, Sparkling...