...morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the...

...fistula laudes. 29 This, or Ronsard's imitation in Eclogue 1.61-64, is the source for Lycidas 174-75 "Where other groves, and other streams along, / With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves ..." (Harrison & Leon 1939,293). cently I carved on the green bark of a beech"), with the difference...