( 2J4. ) 



-" Thuswiih the year 



" Scafons return, but not to me returns 

 *' Day, or tlie fvveet approach of ev'n or morn, 

 " Or fight of vernal bloom, or fummer's rofe, 

 " Or flocks, or liercls, or human face divine ; 

 " But cloud inltead, and cver-during dark 

 " Surrounds me, from the clieerful ways of men 

 " Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair 

 w Pi-efented with a univerfal blank 

 " Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, 

 " And wifdom at one entrance quite fhut out. 

 The Tranflator concludes this fubjedl in the words of the fame 

 great Poet, as conveying a fentiment, which a wife man muft deem 

 the mofl effcdiual, if not the only real confolation under fuch an 

 affli61:ion. 



" So much the rather thou, celeftial Light, 

 " Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers 

 " Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mift from thence 

 " Purge and difperfe, that I may fee and tell 



" Of things invifible to mortal fight." 



Milton's Paradifc Loft, Book III. 





