...danc'd, and Fauns with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, 35 And old Damcetas lov'd to hear our song. But, O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves With...

...danc't, and Fauns with clov'n heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, 35 And old Damoetas lov'd to hear our song. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone ! Now thou art gone, and never must return i Thee, shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves,...

...iv. 2. 26. See Milton's Lycidas : " But oh ! the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return ! Thee, shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn : The willows and the hazel-copses...

...old Damastas loved to hear our song. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone— Now thou art gone, and never must return ! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves. With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes, mourn ; The willows, and the hazel...

...Damostas loved to hear our song.' But,«O, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return ! Thee, shepherd, thee, the woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes, mourn : The willows, and the hazel...

...happy landscape seems utterly shattered, in a passage that begins by weltering in heavy repetitions: But O the heavy change, now thou art gon, Now thou...o'regrown, And all their echoes mourn. The Willows, and the Hazle Copses green, Shall now no more be seen, Fanning their joyous Leaves to thy soft layes. As killing...

...nature, which had responded joyously to Lycidas's soft lays when he was alive, now mourns his death: Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and desert Caves, With wilde Thyme and the gadding Vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn. We go on to the fifth type of Lycidas, the archetypal version,...

...satyrs danc'd, and fauns with clov'n heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, And old Damaetas lov'd to hear our song. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must retum! Thee shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves. With...

...loss in language plain and repetitious: But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee, shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'crgrown, And all their echoes mourn (37-41) Echoes, indeed. Abandoned...

...haunting passages in the poem, Milton describes how the natural landscape reacted to the death of Lycidas: But O the heavy change, now thou art gon, Now thou art gon, and never must return! Thee Shepherd, thce the Woods, and desert Caves, With wilde Thyme and the gadding Vine o'regrown, And all their echoes...