“From haunted spring and dale
Edged with poplar pale
The parting genius is with sighing sent.”
John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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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
John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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“Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.”
John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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“Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.”
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“Peor and Baälim
Forsake their temples dim.”
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“No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.”
John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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“It was the winter wild
While the Heav'n-born child
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.”
John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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