352 THE LIFE OF PHILIP HENRY GOSSE. 



and hand, he began to recite the well-known passage in 

 the fourth book of Paradise Lost — 



" Now came still evening on, and twilight grey 

 Had in her sober livery all things clad." 



He pursued the quotation through three or four lines, 

 and then, in the middle of a sentence, the music broke, his 

 head fell once more upon his breast, and for him the 

 splendid memory, the self-sustaining intellect which had 

 guided the body so long, were to be its companions upon 

 earth no more. 



