John Milton on New Year
1608–1674 England
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Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds
On half the nations, and with fear of change
Perplexes monarchs.
Day and night,
Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost
Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
What reinforcement we may gain from hope;
If not, what resolution from despair.
Hope elevates, and joy
Brightens his crest.
The never-ending flight
Of future days.
Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
Tractate of Education (1644)
Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race:
Call on the lazy leaden-stepping Hours,
Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace;
And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,
Which is no more than what is false and vain,
And merely mortal dross.
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good.
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire
To lay thir just hands on that golden key
That opes the palace of Eternity.
To such my errand is; and but for such,
I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds
With the rank vapours of this sin-worn mould.
Comus : A Mask (1634)