...and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music...

...nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music...

...and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : \Vhere they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and naming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred...

...themselves in the roars of " inextinguishable laughter " of Alfred Tennyson's Epicurean gods— Careless of mankind,— For they lie beside their nectar, and...in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Bound their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. There they smile in secret, looking over...

...valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music...

...mind, In the hollow lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills, like gods together, careless of mankind: For they lie beside their nectar, and their bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses,...

...Latin may correspond to English, we may refer our readers to another passage from the same poem:— " Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music...

...mind, In the hollow lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills, like gods together, careless of mankind : For they lie beside their nectar, and their bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses,...

...valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music...

...nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight...earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music...