On the Morning of Christ's Nativity is a nativity ode written by John Milton in 1629 and published in his Poems of Mr. John Milton . The poem
“From haunted spring and dale
Edged with poplar pale
The parting genius is with sighing sent.”
Hymn, stanza 20, line 184
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Hymn, stanza 19, line 173
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
“Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.”
Hymn, stanza 14, line 135
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
“Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.”
Hymn, stanza 18, line 172
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Stanza 1, line 1
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
“Peor and Baälim
Forsake their temples dim.”
Hymn. Line 197
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“No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.”
Hymn, stanza 4, line 53
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
“It was the winter wild
While the Heav'n-born child
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.”
Hymn, stanza 1, line 29
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
