...malheureux cessent de se plaindre, les méchants de persécuter, les ' Seasons return , but not me returns Day , or the sweet approach of ev'n , or morn , Or sight of vernal bloom , or summer's rose Or stocks, or herds, or humane face divine; But cloud instead , and ever-during dark Surrounds me.......

...not to me returns eye*r' nfll«l\ f * Wee,t *PPro»cl» °f even or morn, Or eight of vernal bfoom, or summer's rose, Or flocks or herds, or human face divine;' But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround me from the cheerful^ys of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair Presented with...

...bard : — the son of silence and of solitude — " From the cheerful ways of men Cut off;" But not " For the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works." It is. only necessary to mention, to convey to the recollection of the reader, an adequate idea of...

...•• • •'i ...nii^fawm'-* " From the cheerful ways of men" " ' ! •>"*«il,' Cut off ;" But not " For the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works." ' •' ' , 'J *' .... -in j It is only necessary to mention, to convey to the .recollection of the...

...outward sight. The passage in Milton incorporates the common motifs of Davidic naturalism, "But not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...But cloud instead and ever-during dark / Surrounds me."33 In Prior's passage we also have the returning cloud, the darkening of nature, but in the context...

...he took courage, — " Seasons returned; but not for him returned Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine." But he went from his darkened chamber and his couch of pain to his noble work, as a strong man rejoicing...

...understand without his assistance. And surely the agony associated with his own blindness - 'but not to me returns/ Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,/...divine;/ But cloud instead, and ever-during dark/ Surround me' (m 41-6) - must have held some consolation for him - indeed may have been seen as providential,...

...absorbed into it as part of it; but that is his role and not the illusion of not being there at all. Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns...approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds...

...insight. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book...

...lyric: . . . Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the Sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank. caesuras inevitably pair "vernal bloom" with "cloud instead" and "summer's rose" with "ever-during...