...leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping beard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius ia...

...leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. 4 Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn,...

...not melody enough for this age in O'Connell's last whine, and imagination enough in the Whig budget ? The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard, and loud lament : From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale. The parting genius is with sighing sent. With flowers, in woven tresses torn,...

...leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-«yed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent : With flower-inwoven tresses torn,...

...hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn,...

...leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn,...

...to delude the people henceforth held their peace." The words in which Milton refers to this incident in his Ode on the Nativity,— " The lonely mountains...shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament,"— will recur to the memory of the English traveller, as he sails over this spot, particularly if it be...

...Griechenlands — such as, perhaps, half unconsciously influenced Milton when he sang his Christmas Carol : The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn,...

...mortalia corda Per gentes humilis stravit pavor ; . . . And so again in these lines of Milton : — The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The...

...leaving No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the palc-ey'd priest from the prophetic cellThe Edg'd with poplar pale, POETS. JOHN MILTON. With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight...