• From “Paradise Lost,” Book XI.
      O UNEXPECTED stroke, worse than of death!
    Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave
    Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades,
    Fit haunt of gods; where I had hope to spend,
    Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day
    That must be mortal to us both? O flowers,
    That never will in other climate grow,...