...tark Built in the eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His...Ah ! who hath reft," quoth he, " my dearest pledge r" Last came, and last did go The pilot of the Galilean lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain...

...the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus,6 reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy,...figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower5 inscribed with woe. ' Ah ! who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge ? ' Last came, and last...

...bark Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His...sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge, Fecerit ille semel de facto quoque virorum Arbitrium : tantum famse manet sethera nactis." Fons Arethusa...

...100 Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His...sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge ios Like to that sanguine flow'r inscrib'd with woe. Ah ! Who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge...

...thine. [100-02] Next comes the world of learning, but the reverend Camus has only a cry for an answer, "Ah; Who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge?"...came, and last did go / The Pilot of the Galilean lake . . ." (107-09). The Pilot, of course, is generally identified as St. Peter, but there are strong overtones...

...perfidious Bark Built in th' eclipse, anariggd witb curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred bead of thine. Next Camus, reverend Sire, went footing slow, His Mantle hairy, and his Bonnet sedge, ' Inwrought withjigures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguinejlower inscrib'd with woe. Ah; Who hath reft...

...bark 100 Built in th'eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark. That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His...dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscrib'd with woe. "Ah! Who hath reft" (quoth he) "my dearest pledge?" Last came, and last did go,...

...Milton wrote in Comus: That power Which erring men call chance.126 In Lycidas, 1637, Milton composed: Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean...of metals twain, (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).127 In his work, Animadversions upon the Reply of Smectymnuus, 1642, John Milton wrote: Let...

...relationship between the second visitors in the two elegies. As we have seen, Milton's Camus, with his "Mantle hairy, and his Bonnet sedge, / Inwrought...dim, and on the edge / Like to that sanguine flower inscrib'd with woe" (104-6), bears a striking resemblance to Virgil's Silvanus.64 The one significant...

...That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus (reverend sire) went footing slow, His mande hairy and his bonnet sedge Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscrib'd with woe. "Ah! Who hath reft" (quoth he) "my dearest pledge?" Last came, and last did go,...