...skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Vow air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern...borne in heedless hum ; Now teach me, maid compos'd, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing...

...weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or whore the beetle winds His email but sullen horn. As oft he rises 'midst the twilight...pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach me, maid cotnpos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May...

...artists) to silence, is not new. Thus wrote Collins in 1746 : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern...; Or, where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn.1 The beetle of Collins and Gray is the " grey fly" of Milton, that, in the pensive man's ear,...

...to silence, is not new. Thus wrote Collins in 1746 : b Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern...; Or, where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn.1 The beetle of Collins and Gray is the " Sreyfly" °f Milton, that, in the pensive man's ear,...

...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing1, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path,...

...ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat, With slxwi shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His «mall but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless...

...weak-ey'd hat, Wilh short shrill shriek flits hy on leathern wing, Or where the heetle winds His small hut sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim horne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid compus'd, To hreathe some soften'd strain, Whosenumhers,...

...Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat [wing. With short shrill shriek flies by on leathern Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn,...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now tench me, maid compos'd, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing ihrough thy darkening...

...Hath rung night's yawning peal." Macbeth, act iii. sc. 2. And so Collins, in his Ode to Evening : " Or where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." W. p 2 Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, . The mopeing owl does to the moon complain 10 Of such...

...during the noon-day beat, loving hest the hour when the English beetle, with less offensive sound, winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst...twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum. * The travellers crossed the Arno by moon-light, at a ferry ; and learning that Pisa was distant only...