...Whilst yet1 there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn,2 Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and...

...While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic...but keep thy wonted state With even step and musing gaite And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt sold sitting in thine eyes; There held in holy...

...While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing...

...demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress-lawn, elf that decrnest other's deed, And truth thee shall...dredc. That*0 thee is sent receive in buxornness ;SI Wich a sad leaden downward cast, Thou fix them on the earth as fast ; And join with thee calm Peace,...

...turn of thought and language with the great poet, in his address to Meditation, " devout and pure!" Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and...with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes .... And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, And hears...

...While yet there was. no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress-lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and...

...yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, Ail in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and...

...yet there was no fear of Jove. 17 Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and...

...sage and holy ***** Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight. * * # * With looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. * * * * In glimmering bowers and glades He met her." MILTON'S PENSBROSO. THE reaction usually consequent...

...idea occurs often in literature. Milton, perhaps, led the way by his description of Melancholy: — with even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, The rapt soul sitting in her eyes ! Sterne assigns the same peculiarity to the face of his Monk, in...