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The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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e that Taught the dumb on high to sing, And heavy ignorance aloft to fly: That added feathers to the learned's wing, And gave to grace a double majesty. I do not mean that in the Shepherd's Calendar he had already achieved that transmutation of language and metre by which he was afterwards to endow English verse with the most varied and majestic of stanzas, in which the droning old alexandrine, awakened for the first time to a feeling of the poetry that was in him, was to wonder, like M. Jourdain, that he had been talking prose all his life,—but already he gave clear indications of the tendency and premonitions of the power which were to carry it forward to ultimate perfection. A harmony and alacrity of language like this were unexampled in English verse:— Ye dainty nymphs, that in this blessed brook Do bathe your breast, Forsake your watery bowers and hither look At my request. . . . . And eke you virgins that on Parnass dwell, Whence floweth Helicon, the learned well, Help