...suppeditabat opem. Sic ego deficiens aegra te voce vocavi, Tuqve mihi fautrix tempus in omne venis. The Skylark. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy, whose race is just begun. The pale purple...

...those graceful lines of Shelley, perhaps the most poetical he ever wrote, recurred to our memory — " Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." Alas! that the sentiment of life — a pleasant pastime, the realities a bitter pang — should be...

...wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart [art. In profuse strains of unpremeditated Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple...

...boon 1 ask of thee, beloved Night ; Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon ! TO A SEYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert,...which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like...

...be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon ! TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird them never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest...which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like...

...caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I rise and upbuild it again. THE SKY-LARK. Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou...wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singcst. In the golden lighting Of the sunken sun. O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float...

...motion, Thou needest not fear mine ; Innoeent is the heart's devotion With which I worship thine. TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose raee ia just begun. The pale purple...

...spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse airains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple...

...laden Ever to burthen thme. . I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion, Thou needest not fear mine ; TO A SKYLARK. HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never...still and higher, From the earth thou springest Like a eloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest....

...Shelley's shorter poems — his Ode, or Hymn, as it may be called, ' To a Skylark,' written in 1820 : — Hail to thee, blithe spirit, Bird thou never wert,...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, _ Thou dost float and run ; 'ke an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple...