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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MILTON'S SHORTER POEMS ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY This is the month, and this' the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our .great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, . s That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace. That glorious form, that light unsufferable, And that far beaming blaze of majesty, Wherewith he wont at Heaven's high council table 10 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. Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein c/' is Afford a present to the Infant God? Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain, ,vM To welcome him to this his new abode, ''', ,9 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 ? ' L/Ct' See how from far upon the eastern road I. . . ' i The star led wizards haste with odors sweet! O run, prevent them with thy humble ode, ,V ' And lay it lowly at his blessed feet; 25 Have thou the honor first thy Lord to greet, And join thy voice unto the angel choir, From out his secret altar touched with hallowed fire. ' The Hymn It was the winter wild, .,' While the Heaven born Child so All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature, in awe, to him Had doffed her gaudy trim, With her great master so to sympathize; It was no season then for her , 35 To wanton with the Sun, her lusty paramour. Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, An...
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