 | Robert Aris Willmott - Literature - 1928 - 244 pages
...declining, sheds a Her wonted station in the middle milder gleam, air; What time the May-fly haunts THOMSON A thousand shadows at her beck. First this She sends...still, In circle following circle, gathers round. A fresher gale Begins to wave the wood, and stir the stream, Sweeping with shadowy gust the field of... | |
 | Howard Anderson - Aesthetics - 1967 - 429 pages
...convey it: All ether softening, sober Evening takes Confessed from yonder slow-extinguished clouds, Her wonted station in the middle air, A thousand shadows...circle, gathers round To close the face of things. (Summer, 11.1647-54) 1 The passage distinguishes among "ether," "the middle air" and "earth": "ether"... | |
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Confess'd from yonder slow-extinguish'd clouds, All ether softening, sober Evening takes Her wonted station in the middle air ; A thousand shadows at her beck. 
