...Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent : With flower-inwoven tresses lorn, The Nymphs, in twilight shade of tangled thickets,...mourn. In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth, The Lares and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In ui ns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affright...

...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,...pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated...

...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,...

...mortalia corda Per gentes humilis stravit pavor ; . . . And so again in these lines of Milton : — The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore...pale The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. It will be noticed...

...Griechenlands — such as, perhaps, half unconsciously influenced Milton when he sang his Christmas Carol : The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. But Julian, though...

...paralleled with the work of Botticelli or Fra Angelico. Sometimes it seems to be a beauty of sound: — "The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...poplar pale The parting genius Is with sighing sent." Bnt it is not only image or sound, nor is it the thought that moves us here, for a kind of intoxication...

...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...

...held their peace." The words in which Milton refers to this incident in his Ode on the Nativity,— " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding 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...

...associated with that wild and striking legend, which we must again describe in the words of Milton— The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard and loud lament. Sicily in like manner affords a remarkable instance of the erection of a fabric of geographical mythology...

...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, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament ; b'rom haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent :...