...berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? .he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter...

...berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter...

...berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter...

...berries harsh and crude, And with forced ftngers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter...

...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compel me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead...his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter...

...berries harsh and crude, And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. 1 This monody was written on occasion of the death of Milton's friend, Mr. Edward King, who was drowned...

...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compel me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead — dead ere his prime — Young Lycidas 1 — and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing and build...

...berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude. Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and weltei...

...berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me...his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 88 LYCIDAS. Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,...

...berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter...