...they stole " Those balmy spoils." " Tripping ebb, that stole " With soft foot toward the deep," &c. " Sabrina fair, " Listen where thou art sitting " Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave." " At last a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, " And stole...

...Water too is the element of poetry. Listen to Milton : how sweetly he calls up the riverspirit ! " Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake ! By the rushy-fringed...

...? Drayton. Milton has given us one specimen of 3 /. Sabrina fair Lis|ten where | thou art sit ting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. Comus. The Sections 5. and 5l. have been alternated; they form a very pleasing...

...try, And add the pow'r of some adjuring verse. SONG. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting aeo Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, 865 Listen and save....

...day our studious race begun ; On the same day our studious course was run." — Workt, p. 404.] » [" Sabrina fair. Listen where thou art sitting Under...twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair," AcO • [" Epistles, Odes, and other Foemi ; by Thomat Moore, Esq."] o " We only...

...Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure. Milton, Comus, 824. Sabrina fair, Listen where thon art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,...twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake, (loddess of the silver lake, into the Abus at...

...try, And add the pow'r of some adjuring verse. SONG. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting 860 Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, 865 Listen and save....

...disenchantment of the lady ensues. The invocation of Sabrina is pleasant as the voice of childhood : " Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...glassy, cool translucent wave, In twisted braids of lillies knitting » Compare ,£sch. Prometh. 1088. The loose train of triy amber-clropping-hair; Listen...

...as was herself, In hard-besetting need ; this will I try, And add the power of some adjuring verse. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save....

...currents, strikingly reminding us of the " tresses fair" of Sabrina, alluded to in Milton's Comus : — " Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under...twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair." When the plant grows on the moist sandy margins of the river, entirely out of...