...— "Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of eve or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and rased." Almost literally did these beautiful lines apply to the situation of that child....

...beautifully alludes to this deprivation. " Not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut...

...PROM HIS INFANCY. FOURTH EDITION. •' But not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach ofev'n or mom, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose ; Or flocks,...and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank." BIRMINGHAM : PRINTED BT JW SHOWELL, 48, NEW-STREET, AND SOLD ONLY BT THE AUTHOR....

...5.5. " Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns5 Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the rheerful ways of men Cut off; and, for the book of knowledge fair, 5 " Now Spring returns : but not...

...says: Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summer's Rose,...But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me . . . So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate,...

...inward now, just as Adam's lost paradise becomes a ' 'paradise within thee, happier far" (XII. 587). ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways...Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...

...note. Thus with the year 40 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,...ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance...

..."with the year / Seasons return," not to the speaker returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, "a universal blank /Of Nature's works to [him] expunged and razed"? Only Autumn responds and appears...

...common motifs of Davidic naturalism, "But not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose...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...

...sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou celestial Light...