Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas* is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin, with Translations ... - Page 3 by John Milton - 1791 - 608 pages Full view -
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