...and concluded by such expostulations and wishes, as leoson too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why sun I thus bereaved thy prime decree ! The sun to me is dark. And pileut as the moon. When she deserts...

...still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! 0 first-created Beam, and thou great Word, ' Let there be light, and light was over all,' Why am...

...as a fool, In pow'r of others, never in my own, Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half: О dark! dark! dark! amid the blaze of noon: Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without aH'hopes of d»y." •The enjoyment of sight then being sr gteat a blessing, and the loss of it so...

...own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, so Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope...over all ;' Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar...

...that helpless condition which Milton has so feelingly described, in the following pathetic lines, — "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eolipse, Without all hqpe of day ! O first created beam, and thou great; word, Let there be light,...

...own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, so Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope...over all ;' Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar...

...helpless, as to condition. The irrecoverable loss of so many livings of principal value. Hooker. U dark, dark, dark amid' the blaze of noon ; Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day. ЛШюп'з Agonista. It concerns every man, that would not trillo away his soul, and fool himself...

...extinct, And all the various objects of delight Annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Oh ! dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! Oh ! first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am...

...moved upon the face of the waters. Let there be light, the Almighty said; and light was over all. 0 first created beam, and thou great word, Let there be light : and light was over all ; 0ne heavenly blaze shone round this earthly ball. [HANDEL. GALATIANS iv. 1. WHEN the fulness of the...

...others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more then half. O dark, dark, dark, amid tie blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse Without all hope of day! Ofrft created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus...