...re-ascend, Though hard and rare, thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sov'reign vita) lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt,...

...lamentation over his blindness. " Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firet born ! bat t !.. ni Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs Or dim suffusion veiled. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns...

...reascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt...

...reascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffuison veil'd. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt...

...thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt...

...unfallen man. Milton feels the warmth of the light, but his tantalized eyes, repeating their loss, "roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn." That tiny chink of light seen "upon the eyes turning" was not always the universe. How often and, though...

...But now, in the prologue to book 3, Milton continues to suggest a better way, despite his blindness: Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill, Smit with the love of sacred song . . . [3.26-29] The...

...25-45). He revisits a lamp that may illuminate him, but does not enable him to see - "thou / Revist'st not these eyes, that roll in vain /To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" (III. 22-24). Others have concluded that a writer's initial scopophilia, his observation of both real...

...Aganippe well," Sonnet LXXIV), never mentioned "Aganippe," taken as the allusion in the lovely passage, "Yet not the more / Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt / Cleer Spring" (PL 3. 28). Why may not the "Cleer Spring" be that other Heliconian spring, Hippocrene...

...thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt...