...another and concluding space of seventeen years, bated nevertheless not one jot of heart and hope, and On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness and with danger compassed round, found in his lowest estate his highest inspiration, and converted his season...

...combined weight of this disappointment and blindness, and the contempt and hatred of the ruling party. Fallen on evil days— on evil days though fallen and evil tongues, with darkness and with danger compassed round — he remains unbroken, confident in the ultimate triumph...

...combined weight of this disappointment and blindness, and the contempt and hatred of the ruling party. Fallen on evil days — on evil days though fallen and evil tongues, with darkness and with danger compassed round — -he remains unbroken, confident in the ultimate triumph...

...bound Within the visible Diurnal Sphere. Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though...round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st ray slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East. Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience...

...bound, Within the visible diurnal sphere ; Standing on earth, nor rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though...fallen and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compass'd round And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn...

...me." PARADISE LOST, Book iii. " Though fall'n on evil days, In darkness, and with danger compass' d round,. And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st...slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east." PARADISE LOST, Book vii. Its gay farewell to hospitable eaves The swallow twittered in the autumn heaven...

...buoyant with hope, and surrounded by troops of friends ; now, poor, old, blind, " fallen on evil days and evil tongues, in darkness, and with dangers compassed round, and solitude," racked with disease, the cause to which he had sacrificed his eyesight and devoted his life irretrievably...

...vernal bloom — 1 " On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compast round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st...slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east." sphere ; Religion fill'd her urn at that pure stream Whose waters gladden New Jerusalem, And with her...

...bound Within the visible diurnal sphere : Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though...fallen, and evil tongues ; In darkness, and with dangers compass'd round,* And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou * For illustration of these mournful utterances...

...bound Within the visible diurnal sphere : Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole , More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, 25 1. Urania, Heavenly ; thus here, as in the opening of the poem, he invokes the *' heavenly muse."...