Say, has he giv'n in vain the heav'nly Muse? Night, and all her sickly dews, Her Spectres wan, and Birds of boding cry, 50 He gives to range the dreary sky: Till down the eastern cliffs afar Woods, that wave o'er Delphi's steep,' Isles, that crown th' Ægean deep, Fields, that cool Ilissus laves, 65 70 75 Or where Mæander's amber waves coast. III THE STROPHE Far from the sun and summer-gale, 6 81 In thy green lap was Nature's Darling" laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, 85 Hyperion's march they spy, and glitt'ring This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear shafts of war. 1 Mars, who was especially worshipped in Thrace 2 Jove's eagle 3 a town in Cyprus containing a temple of Venus the sun's Richly paint the vernal year: 3 90 1 the path of the sun 2 This and the following are places celebrated in Greek poetry. the Muses Italy 5 England 6 i.e. England's Shakespeare 4 |