"Returns

Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,

Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,

Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;

But clouds, instead, and ever-during dark

Surround" [him].

It was in those dreary desolate days at Arceti,

"Unseen

In manly beauty Milton stood before him,

Gazing in reverent awe,--Milton, his guest,