Selections From the Poetical Works of John Milton; With Introduction, Suggestions for Study, Notes, And Glossary
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■ That glorious form, that light unsufferable, And that far-beaming blaze of majesty, Wherewith he wont at Heaven's high council-table lo To sit the midst of Trinal Unity, He laid aside ; and, here with us to be, Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay. 1 71, 74. 2 96, 97. 261 262 MINOR POEMS. III. Say,* Heavenly Muse,^ shall not thy sacred vein 15 Afford a present to the Infant God ? Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain To welcome him t...o this his new abode, Now while the heaven, by the Sun's team- untrod. Hath took no print of the approaching light, 20 And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright ? IV. See how from far, upon the eastern road. The star-led wizards haste with odours sweet ; O run, prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet ! 25 Have thou the honour first thy Lord to greet, And join thy voice unto the angel quire, From out his secret altar touched with hallowed fire. THE HYMN.
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