...mountain in his " Hymn before Sunrise " may well close this study of his poetic life : 0 struggling with darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars ! DERBYSHIRE CHARACTER. By JOHN PENDLETON. " I "HIS paper is not analytical; it does not pretend to...

...days. In the sightless hours, too. one sometimes wakes aware of them in their far-off places:— Oh, struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars. But now it is time to ride down from "the Ridge;" we were supposed to have ridden up there only to...

...with the darkness all the night (later version) And who is being contended for in this cosmic battle? And visited all night by troops of stars Or when they climb the sky or when they sink . . . This place, then, soul or mountain, is a virtual Prince of Darkness. The visiting "troops of...

...fields, and icy cliffs! All join my hymn! And thou, O silent mountain, sole and bare, O blacker, than the darkness, all the night, And visited, all night,...stars, Or when they climb the sky, or when they sink - 30 Companion of the morning star at dawn, Thyself Earth's rosy star, and of the dawn Co-herald! Wake,...

...poem that he has ruined. Sending a text of the Hymn, he added a note in the margin at the lines: O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars . . . 'I had written a much finer line when Scafell was in my thoughts: O blacker than the darkness...

...Sings in the bean-flower.16 In the hymn written in the valley of Chamouni, are these fine lines — O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars.17 It is upon the verses we shall next quote, that the accusation of pantheism has been framed...