In a short space of time he was at rest in his darkened room; not as yet drowsy, but revolving great phrases, and deriving a greater joy from these lonely silences of the night-watches than could ever accrue to him by day. Gradually the aisles and bowers of the Paradise which his mental eyes enjoyed took upon them more and more the lovely similitude of rural England. The greennesses and sweetnesses of his childhood's home, the Buckinghamshire village, were fused into the "eternal spring" of the primeval garden. And from the "glassy, cool, translucent wave" of the river that ran through Eden, "by the rushy-fringed bank Where grows the willow and the osier dank," arose "Sabrina, attended by water-nymphs" as once he saw her rise in _Comus_, and sang the sightless bard to sleep with the plashing of water-music. [Illustration: "Rose"] _Printed by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., Ltd._ _Bradford and London._ _10322_ ==================== Transcriber's Notes: Some illustration's captions have been moved out of the paragraph. The following captions have been added: Illustration: Colour plate of book cover; Illustration: Byron portrait plate; Illustration: Paradise lost plate; Illustration: "Angel" plate; Illustration: Comus colour plate; Illustration: Satan in paradise colour plate; Illustration: Il Penseroso colour plate; Illustration: "Rose". The following noted Illustration was removed: Dropped Cap "A" at start of text - "About ..." Spelling has been made consistent throughout. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Day with John Milton, by May Byron