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...rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There, in close covert, by some brook, Where...Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honeyed thigh,5 That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring, With such concert as...

...Milton had himself sung in his // Pemeroso, before the oecurrence happened : — " There, in elose covert, by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bce, with honicd thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring, With such concert...

...honied *," and " waxen," are entirely poetical, as recent observations have fully shown : Hide me frem day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing. MILTON. Penseroso, 1. 141. The honey bags stcal frem the humble bees, And for night tapers crep thcir...

...rude axe, with heaved stroke. Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert, by some brook, Where...murmuring With such consort as they keep Entice the devy-feather'd sleep; And let some strange, mysterious dream Wave at his wings in aery stream Of lively...

...the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves ;— There, in close covert, by some brook, Where no profaner...eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flow'ry work doth sing, And the waters murmuring Entice the dewy-feather'd sleep ; With such concert...

...rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where...Hide me from day's garish eye. While the bee with honey'd thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring, With such concert as they...

...rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt : There, in close covert, by some brook, Where...Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honeyed thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they...

...rude axe, with lieaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where...may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the hee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring, With such consort...

...axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard thfe nyirtphs to daunt, Or fright them, from their hallow'd haunt. There, in close covert, by some brook, Where...murmuring, With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feather'd sleep ; And let some strange mysterious dream Wave at his wings, in airy stream Of lively...