...destin'd urn ; 20 And, as he passes, turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nura'd ins, Dear Jacob,J by thy care and pains Shall be to...times convey'd. It thus begins : Here Matthew sai oppear'd Under the opening eye-lids of the Mom, We drove afield, and both together heard What time...

...Syrinx well might wait on her. Such a rural queen All Arcadia hath not seen. MINOR POEMS . * t , — " we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill." LYCIDAS. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come,...

...shepherds. " For we were nursed," so runs the verse— "For we "were nursed upon the self-same hill; Led the same flock by- fountain, shade and rill; Together "both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove a-neld, and both together heard What time the gray...

...introspection, as it were) to shepherd his flock and compose his poetry. [p. 85] For we were nurst upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain,...shade, and rill. Together both, ere the high Lawns appear'd Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a field, and both together heard What time...

...them almost unbearably poignant in their very obliquity: Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove afield,...both together heard What time the grey-fly winds her suliry horn. Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. Oft till the star that rose at evening...

...hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill; Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field,...heard What time the grey-fly winds her sultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright 30...

...identification with the dead man turns explicit as Auden recounts how they were, as Milton put it, "nursed upon the selfsame hill, / Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill." But Auden historicizes the original scene of fellowship. Made neighbors by fate, the poets also had...

...my destin'd um, 20 And as he passes tum, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud, For we were nurst upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain,...shade, and rill. Together both, ere the high lawns appear'd Under the opening eyelids of the mom, We drove afield, and both together heard What time the...

...words favour my destined urn, And as he passes, turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. i 'm we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill. (15-24) The 'hill' upon which they were both nursed was, of course, Cambridge, their Alma Mater. The...

...young man, which celebrates just the sense of careless ease that is so notably absent in the later one. For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the...and rill. Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove afield, and both together heard What time the gray-fly...