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Quotes from On the Morning of Christ's Nativity — John Milton

1608–1674 England

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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

Peor and Baälim
Forsake their temples dim.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

From haunted spring and dale
Edged with poplar pale
The parting genius is with sighing sent.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.

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.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

The oracles are dumb,
No voice or hideous hum
Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
Apollo from his shrine
Can no more divine,
With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.
No nightly trance or breathed spell
Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Milton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.