Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd... Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 9by John Milton - 1750Full view - About this book
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...Woods and rocks had ears to rapture'. His source is Paradise Lost, where Milton recalls 'that wilde Rout that tore the Thracian Bard / In Rhodope, where Woods and Rocks had Eares / To rapture' (vii 34-36): those lines were in Wordsworth's mind as he worked on these fragments... | |
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