...scene, Or And some rain midst its dreary delk, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent...wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual...

...scene ; Or find some ruin 'midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more aweful nod By thy religious gleams. Or, if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hnt, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd...

...religious gleams. Or if chill blust'ring winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the nut, That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds and swelling...all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil. While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont, And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve !...

...and then letting emotion work on the materials, at last creates such a distant landscape as this, — Or if chill, blustering winds or driving rain Prevent...wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires ; And hears their simple bell ; and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The...

...scene, Or find some ruin 'midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod, By thy religious gleams ; Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent...all, Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil. While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont, And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve !...

...Contrast with them these lines from the ode : But when chill blust'ring winds, or driving rain. Forbid my willing feet, be mine the hut That from the mountain's...hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy ringers draw The gradual dusky veil. At the time when the Persian Eclogues were written, Collins must...

...observing the personified Evening at work in various seasons, and marking when and how the changes happen: be mine the Hut, That from the Mountain's Side, Views...all Thy Dewy Fingers draw The gradual dusky Veil. Collins still gives spectatorship and the control of the eye more authority than Finch does (a masculine...

...upland fallows grey, Reflect its last cool gleam. But when chill blustering winds or driving rain Forbid my willing feet, be mine the hut That from the mountain's...wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual...

...absence of daylight; and it is from 110 Collins that Keble has taken the idea of an occluding curtain: "and marks o'er all / Thy dewy fingers draw / The gradual dusky veil." 3 With human noise thus deleted from the sound track, the primal innocence of nature re-asserts itself...

...Ode einzeln genannten »Pensive Pleasures«: But when chill blustring Winds, or driving Rain, Forbid my willing Feet, be mine the Hut, That from the Mountain's...all Thy Dewy Fingers draw The gradual dusky Veil. (33-40) So long sure-found beneath the Sylvan Shed, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, rose-lip'd Health,...