The speaker describes the dissipation of fog as Eve lifting her veil, and his lengthy description of the passing of spring into summer culminates with the line, "The (*) bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.
The speaker of this poem asks, "Where are the mowers who…stood with suspended scythe" after finding a boat near the "Wytham flats," and he recalls traveling the track by Childsworth Farm. He talks of "Young Daphnis, with his silver voice" singing in "the hot cornfield of the Phrygian King," and he describes a "sweet city with her dreaming spires" as viewed from Boars Hill. The speaker describes the dissipation of fog as Eve lifting her veil, and his lengthy description of the passing of spring into summer culminates with the line, "The (*) bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I." He laments that "time, not Corydon, hath conquer'd" this poem's title character, whom he associates with the "signal-elm that looks on Ilsley Downs. The area surrounding Oxford provides this poem's setting, and the poet laments that the place he and Arthur Hugh Clough once often roamed is now only frequented by another of this poet's characters, the Scholar-Gypsy. For ten points name this elegy by Matthew Arnold.
The speaker of this poem asks, "Where are the mowers who…stood with suspended scythe" after finding a boat near the "Wytham flats," and he recalls traveling the track by Childsworth Farm.
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