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...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede etherial wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek...softened strain, Whose numbers stealing through thy dark'ning vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved...

...bright-haired sun Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang hie s more violent than any of them : Francesco prefers...we have not rain soon, we shall certainly have mo hum, As oft he rises midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum : Now teach...

...'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, is The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. '' Or where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn...path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum." W. V. 10. The " ignavus bubo" of Ovid. Met. v. 550. The two following passages might supply the images...

...his " Ode to Evening," could not be correctly applied to them. He says : " Now air is hushed, save Where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn ;...twilight path, Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum ;" for these creatures were not seen by mortal eye, nor was their hum music to mortal ear. Upwards...

...genius took, And led the war 'gainst thine, and Freedom's foes. (MASON.) EXERCISE CXLV. HYMN TO EVENING. Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With...flits by on leathern wing ; Or where the beetle winds As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum ; Now teach me,...

...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek...hum; Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, ODE TO EVENING. 165 Whose numbers stealing through thy darkening vale May not unseemly...

...western tent, whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek,...hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness...

...tent, whose cloudy skirts, "With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed : — Now air is husb/d, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek...hum : Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some soften'd strain. Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness...