Methought I saw him placable and mild,
Bending his Ear, &c.
How extremely fine is the Poetry of this Passage? How soft is the beginning, occasion'd by the Assonance of the two first Words, Eve, Easily, and of the five next all alliterated with the same Vowel, A
"——————May Faith admit that all.
How solemn is the Pause at the 1st Syllable of the 3d Line! But————
And the Cæsure upon the Monosyllable Us that follows immediately,
"But—that from us————
And the same Energy is plainly perceiv'd at the End of the 6th Line, where the Cæsure is plac'd upon the Monosyllable yet,
"Yet—this will Prayer, &c.
But when we come to that Line,