135 Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with jet, The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strow the laureate herse where Lycid lies. Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. 136 use] i. e. frequent, inhabit. Spens. F. Q. Introd. b. vi. st. 2. 'In these strange waies, where never foot did use.' Newton. 138 swart] See Warton's note on this word 153 dally] Gayton's Chartæ Scriptæ, p. 21. 'When our fond thoughts are wearied with the sports O th' earth, we dally in the watry coasts.' 145 150 Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurl'd, 155 160 Weep no more, woful Shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky; 166 171 So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, 158 monstrous] The sea, the world of monsters. Hor. Od. i. 3. 18. Virg. Æn. vi. 729. 'Quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus.' Warton. 167 watery floor] Dante Purg. ii. 15. 'Sovra' suol marino.' Davison's Poet. Rhapsodie, p. 78. Long ere Titan 'gan make his 169 repairs] Lidgate's Troy, p. 13, repaire.' Browne's Brit. Past. p. 88, soft repayre.' See Fletcher's Christ's Victory, ii. 12; and the Adamus Exul Grotii, p. 28, 35; and Marino's Slaugh. of the Innoc. p. 45, 'His light immortal doth repair.' And Lucret. v. 733. 171 forehead] 'Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.' Sylvest. Du Bartas, p. 25. With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, 175 180 185 Thus sang the uncouth swain to th' oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with sandals gray; He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay; And now the sun had stretch'd out all the hills, And now was dropt into the western bay; At last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue : To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. 177 blest] Past. Ægl. on Sir P. Sidney's death, by L. B. ver. 135. 'Phillisides is dead! Oh happie sprite That now in heaven with blessed seules doest bide: Looke down awhile from where thou sitst above,' &c. 190 See Past. Egl. on Sir P. Sidney's death, by L. B. ver. 159. In western waves; and th' aire with stormy showres, ܂܂ 193 To-morrow] Fletcher's P. Island, c. vi. s. 77. 'To-morrow shall ye feast in pastures new.' Warton. 191 IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams 5 Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their pow'rs offended: 13 too bright] Hor. Od. i. xix. 5. 'Nimium lubricus aspici.' 19 Ethiop] Noctem Ethiopissam.' Miltoni Prolus. p. 73. Thee bright-hair'd Vesta, long of yore, His daughter she (in Saturn's reign, With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast: And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Aye round about Jove's altar sing: 35 cyprus] Winter's Tale, act iv. sc. 3. 'Cyprus black as e'er was crow.' Warton. 37 keep] State in wonted manner keep.' Jonson's Cynth. Rev. act |