...sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Fur from the fiery noon, and eve'* one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round...hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of n!r was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feathered grasft,...

...of thought. How familiar the music of the opening lines of the second version has gro\vn to us. Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat grey-hairM Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair : Forest on forest hung...

...from the flery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the Mlence round about his lair; Forest on Forest hung about...cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much lift* as on a summer's day Bobs not one light seed from the feathered graso, But where the dead leaf...

...intonations. The opening lines of Hyperion will demonstrate something of the extent of Milton's presence: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat grey-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung...

...character. In the first version the poetic craftsmanship is devoted mainly to realizing the scene: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the...morn. Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung...

...tragic and elegiac connotations. The all-pervading stillness in the opening lines of Hyperion Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; . . . is indeed the...

...lines of the poem are perhaps the most impressive evocation in all poetry of an absolute dead-end: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung...

...opening, in which Saturn and Thea are seen at once as gods and as humans, provides a good example. 56 Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat grey-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung...

...insulting light / Could glimmer on their tears; where their own groans / They felt, but heard not," a "shady sadness of a vale / Far sunken from the healthy...morn, / Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star" (II, 57; I, 1-3). Before Hyperion's insulting light came among the mammoth brood, furthermore, they...

...depiction of the fallen Saturn is one of the most carefully wrought passages in all of Keats's poetry. Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung...