Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . / <- •«^ I meet another spirit there,A blind old man with forehead fair,Who ever walks the right-hand sideToward the fountain of Saint Ikide. He hath no need of common eyes,He sees the fields of Paradise ;He sees, and pictures unto mine,A gorgeous vision most divine. ^, iy He tells the story of the Fall,He names the fiends in shows my soul, in wonder , Earth, and Pandemonium. C\.i He tells of Lycidas the good,And the sweet Lady i

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Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . / <- •«^ I meet another spirit there,A blind old man with forehead fair,Who ever walks the right-hand sideToward the fountain of Saint Ikide. He hath no need of common eyes,He sees the fields of Paradise ;He sees, and pictures unto mine,A gorgeous vision most divine. ^, iy He tells the story of the Fall,He names the fiends in shows my soul, in wonder , Earth, and Pandemonium. C\.i He tells of Lycidas the good,And the sweet Lady in the teaches wisdom high and holyIn Mirth and heavenly Melancholy. With such companions at my sideI float on Londons human tide ;An atom on its billows thrown,Put lonely never, nor alone. 265 M M. i\ L> V). P- .J^Hiy-ti. nn

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