Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks

(King Lear, acte III, se. ii, 1.)

3. Pour nous borner À deuic citations empruntées à des poètes irè> divers, n'y a-t-il pas comme un subtil parfum de la poésie grecque dan^ ces vers de Miiton et de Goleridge :

« Thus sang the uncouth swain to tbe oaks and rills While the stiil morn went out with sandals gray. v

(Lycidas, 186, 187.)

« Ând Winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spriag. »

{Work withoul hope.)

4. « The grey-grown oaks — That the calm village in their verdanf arms — Sheltering embrace, • {Summer, 225-227.)

• (The lively diamond) Dares as it sparkies on the fair oné's breast — With vain ambition emulate her eyes. » (Ibid,, 145, 146.)

« Softer gales at whose kind touch,.,. — Tiie mountains lift Iheir green heads to the sky. » [Spring, 15 et 17.) « Smiling Nature. » (Ibid., 83.) — « The sighing gaies. - {làid., 93.^

• The North-East spends his rage. - (/6irf., 142.)

« Even mountains, vales — And forests seem, impatient^ to demand — The promised sweetness. » (/6td., 107-169.) Et d'autres passages.