...fable 0f Bcllcrus old. —if^ * * Where the great vision of the guarded Mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth. And, O ye Dolphins, waft the haples youth. Weep no more, woful Shepherds weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk...

...Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great Vision of the guarded mount Looks towards Namancos, and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and...ruth : And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. The thrilling pause after 'Bayona's hold '-where the verse breaks like the sea on the ' guarded mount...

...by the fable of Bellerus old, 160 Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward angel now, and melt...ruth: And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woeful shepherds weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be...

...Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded Mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold. Look homeward Angel now, and melt...with ruth, And O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more; For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be...

...(and excitedly visual) conclusion that answers the need that was best expressed in the searing lines: Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth. (163-64) This is a physical ache, and it answered with a physical transfiguration. Lycidas brings consolation...

...by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded Mount 296 Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward Angel now, and melt...with ruth: And O ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woeful Shepherds weep no more, For Lycidasyour sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be...

...and see how unexpected / Death can betray your jollity to ruth!' (483-5), he cited Lyculas, 163-4: 'Look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth. / And O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.' 16 Cf. Shaheen 1989, p. 19, and 1993, pp. 39-40. 17 The Authorized Version of this passage varies slightly:...

...by the fable of Bellerus old, 160 Where the great vision of the guarded Mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward Angel now, and melt...ruth: And, O ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woeful Shepherds weep no more, 165 For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he...

...Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great Vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold. Look homeward, Angel, now, and...ruth: And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he...

...horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again. — nursery rhyme 5. Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth: And o ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. — John Milton, "Lycidas" 6. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never...