The shadow then thrown across—
"Sed frons læta parum"—
is well given, with a variation, by—
"But gloomy were his eyes."
The lightlessness is feelingly placed where the chief light should be.
The unequalled
"Ostendent terris hunc tantum Fata,"
so fully signifying the magnitude of the gift offered and withdrawn—so sadly the brief promise, and all so concisely, meets with a soft and bright rendering in
"The blissful vision of a day."
But Dryden's "shown on earth," less positively affirms the loss fallen upon the earth, than the Latin "shall show to the nations."