...sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly...in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." Such is the view that Richardson has given us of him in his declining days : — " An ancient clergyman...

...equall'd with me in fate iki were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyrk, and blind Maeonides; 35 Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human lace divine : But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men...

...of the morning." 2. — [MILTON'S ALLUSION TO HIS LOSS OF SIGHT.] " Seasons return : But not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...herds or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge...

...and sublimely touches upon the loss of his vision: " Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut olF, and for the book of knowledge...

...equal'd with me in fate, So were I equal'd with them in renown ! Blind Thamyris, and blind Meeonides ; 35 And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or Iraman face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark 45 So much the rather thou, celestial Light,...

...equal'd with me in fate, So were I equal'd with them in renown ! Blind Thamyris, and blind Mceonides ; 35 And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or mom? Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud...

...of the morning." 2. — [MILTON'S ALLUSION TO HIS LOSS OF SIGHT.] " Seasons return : But not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...herds or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge...

...of the morning." 2. — [MILTON'S ALLUSION TO HIS LOSS OF SIGHT.] " Seasons return : But not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...herds or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge...

...English poets, who, like the wakeful bird of night, "sung darkling!" " Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me : from the cheerful ways of men ; Cut oif, and for the book of knowledge...

...equal'd with them in renown ! Blind Thamyris, and blind Mseonides ; 35 And Tiresias, and Plane us, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; liut cloud instead, and everuuring dark 45 So much the rather thou. celestial Light, Shine...