When we have filled the rundlets of our eyes We'll issue 't forth and vent such elegies As that our tears shall seem the Irish Seas, We floating islands, living Hebrides. [_On the Memory of Mr. Edward King._] First printed in the memorial volume of Cambridge verse to King, _1638_; included in the _Poems_ of _1651_. It is of course easy (and it may be feared that it has too often been done) to contrast this disadvantageously with _Lycidas_. A specific or generic comparison, bringing out the difference of ephemeral and eternal style in verse, will not be found unprofitable and is almost as easy to make. No reader of Milton--and any one who has not read Milton is very unlikely to read this--can need information on King or on the circumstances of his death. _1651_ and _1653_ add a spurious duplicate, the last fourteen lines of W. More's elegy which followed Cleveland's in the Cambridge volume. * _On the Same._ Tell me no more of Stoics: canst thou tell Who 'twas that when the waves began to swell, The ship to sink, sad passengers to call 'Master, we perish'--slept secure of all? Remember this, and him that waking kept A mind as constant as he did that slept. Canst thou give credit to his zeal and love That went to Heaven, and to those flames above, Wrapt in a fiery chariot? Since I heard Who 'twas, that on his knees the vessel steered With hands bolt up to Heaven, since I see As yet no signs of his mortality,-- Pardon me, Reader, if I say he's gone The self-same journey in a wat'ry one. ] [Line: 1 do] will _1638_.] [Line: 2 who] that _1638_.] [Line: 6 _1651_ 'runs': all other editions (including _1638_) 'run'. The attraction to 'eyes' is one of the commonest of things.] [Line: 10 The everlasting confusion of 'mount' and 'fount' occurs in 'Helicon.'] [Line: 26 wonder] miracle _1638_.] [Line: 34 _1638_, _1677_, and later editions read, harmlessly but needlessly, '_for_ shape'.] [Line: 46 'Vatican' used (as Mr. Berdan justly notes) as = 'library'. Cleveland's warmest defenders must admit that this epicede is a triumph of 'frigidity'. And the personal note which _Lycidas_ itself has been unfairly accused of wanting is here non-existent to my eyes, though some have discovered it.] Upon an Hermaphrodite.