...And, O, ye dolphins ! waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woful Shepherds, weep no more. For Lycidaa your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath...morning sky : So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walKd the witors Where, other groves and other streams along, With...

...Informs us, in old maps, as a cutle on the coast of Galicia in Spain. Some think Numantia is Intended. Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas,...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky ; So Lycidas sunk low but mounted high,...

...peace, by wisdom eminent, By paticnce, temperance. 2. CONSOLATION FOR A FRIEND'S DEATH. — Milton Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more , For...beneath the watery floor : So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, . And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore...

...guarded Mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth : And, 0 ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no...morning sky : So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where other groves and other streams along, With...

...doomed. Milton adapts the simile in Lycidas (168-71) into a triumphant image of Christian resurrection: 'So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, | And yet...new-spangled ore | Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.' Lucifer is the planet Venus which appears both at evening and at dawn: although Virgil's comparison...

...For after the funereal solemnities of his catalogue of flowers, he adds a coda: Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow,...Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas. . . . So the poet remained, for all his dying; and at the Restoration, after the political interregnum...

...justice. We have been comforted with beauty. Our hearts are ready for belief. Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is...new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. (165-71) Immortality, the reward of the dedicated, is the theme; and the music lifts impellingly...

...envisioned his drowned friend Edward King's soul as a morning star: Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And...morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walked the waves, Where, other groves and other streams along, With...

...homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth, And O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more; For Lycidas your sorrow is...repairs his drooping head And tricks his beams and with new-spangl'd ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky; So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high Through...

...the sun that sinks only to rise again. Lycidas will also rise, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And...new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. (167-71) There is a new dimension here, however. This analogy with natural renewal has been made...