...rising ground, I hear the far-off Curfeu sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless...

...rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar: Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed...through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ; Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless...

...rising• gro-jnd I hear the far--off curfew sound, Over some wide-wnter'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar. Or if the air will not permit, Some still, removed...through the room Teach light: to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth. Or the bellmau's drowsy charm, To bless...

...crick she has got in her back. — Quevedo's Visions. Cricket, a small stool ; also, a house insect. Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth. — Milton, II Pen. Crinkle, to rumple a thing ; also, to bend under a weight. Comely crinkled, Wondrously...

...rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide watered shore, Swinging slow with solemn roar Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers throngh the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ; Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket...

...in the same room where a person is sitting1 : if the plants are not wetted, it will die. XL VII. " Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth." MILTON'S // Paueroio. WHILE many other insects must be sought after in fields, and woods, and waters,...

...and in the repeated "wide water, without sound" of Stevens's "Sunday Morning" — through the place Where glowing Embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom and to generate the interior illumination of the figurative, the passage then continues into the realms...

...room MILTON S VISION OF THE MOON MILTON AND THE SPIRIT OF PLATO Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the Cricket on the hearth, Or the Belmans drousie charm, To bless the doresfrom nightly harm: Or let my Lamp at midnight hour, Be seen...

...cloud. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide- watered shore, Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed...resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nighdy harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen...

...of the fireside whose note is so suggestive of cozy comfort. Milton (// Penseroso, 81) has the line: Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth. On the other hand, the tunes of the hidden melodist were regarded by many persons with superstition...