...springs; For thee Idume's spicy forests blow, And seeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow ; See Heav'n its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon...the morn, Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her silver horn; But lost, dissolv'd in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts:...

...springs ! For thee Idume's spicy forests blow, And seeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow. See heav'n its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon...the morn, Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost, dissolv'd in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts...

...Rise, crowned with light, imperial Salem, rise; Exalt thy tow'ring head and lift thine eyes; See heav'n its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day. See a long race thy spacious courts adorn : See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding...

...sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee. No more the rising Sun shall gild the morn, Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her silver horn. Chaucer in wig and small-clothes is too mournful a spectacle for us to linger over, when instead of...

...crowned with light, imperial Salem rise ! Exalt thy towering head and lift thine eyes ! See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day. See a long race thy spacious courts adorn: See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks...

...springs! For thee Idume's spicy forests blow, And seeds of golden Ophir's mountains glow. See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day. POPE, 1730 Remark upon (a) its clearness, (6) its appropriateness and beauty. Add a note on Bunyan...

...springs ! For thee Idume's spicy forests blow, And seeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow. See heav'n its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon...the morn, Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost, dissolv'd in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts...

...crowned with light, imperial Salem, rise; Exalt thy towering head and lift thine eyes ! See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day. Our years are like the shadows On sunny hills that lie, Or grasses in the meadows, That blossom but...

...for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee," is shattered forever in Pope's rhymed version, "No more the rising Sun shall gild the morn Nor ev'ning Cynthia fill her silver horn." It is clearly evident that many of the beautiful passages in the King James version of the Bible, though...

...springs ! For thee Idume's spicy forests blow, 95 And seeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow. See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon...day ! No more the rising sun shall gild the morn, Nor«evening Cynthia fill her silver horn; 100 But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of...