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The winds; with wonder whist;

Smoothly the waters kissed;

Whispering new joys to the mild ocean …

Who now hath quite forgot to rave;

While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave。



The stars; with deep amaze;

Stand fixed in steadfast gaze;

Bending one way their precious influence;

And will not take their flight

For all the morning light;

Or Lucifer that often warned them thence;

But in their glimmering orbs did glow

Until their Lord himself bespake; and bid them go。



And though the shady gloom

Had given day her room;

The sun himself withheld his wonted speed;

And hid his head for shame;

As his inferior flame

The new…enlightened world no more should need;

He saw a greater Sun appear

Than his bright throne; or burning axletree; could bear。



The shepherds on the lawn

Or ere the point of dawn

Sat simply chatting in a rustic row;

Full little thought they then

That the mighty Pan

Was kindly come to live with them below;

Perhaps their loves; or else their sheep;

Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep。



When such music sweet

Their hearts and ears did greet

As never was by mortal finger strook …

Divinely…warbled voice

Answering the stringed noise;

As all their souls in blissful rapture took:

The air; such pleasure loth to lose;

With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly close。



Nature; that heard such sound

Beneath the hollow round

Of Cynthia's seat the airy region thrilling;

Now was almost won

To think her part was done;

And that her reign had here its last fulfilling;

She knew such harmony alone

Could hold all heaven and earth in happier union。



At last surrounds their sight

A globe of circular light

That with long beams the shamefaced night arrayed;

The helmed Cherubim

And sworded Seraphim

Are seen in glittering ranks with wings displayed;

Harping in loud and solemn choir

With unexpressive notes; to Heaven's new…born Heir。



Such music (as 'tis said)

Before was never made

But when of old the sons of morning sung;

While the Creator great

His constellations set

And the well…balanced world on hinges hung;

And cast the dark foundations deep;

And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep。



Ring out; ye crystal spheres!

Once bless our human ears;

If ye have power to touch our senses so;

And let your silver chime

Move in melodious time;

And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow;

And with your ninefold harmony

Make up full consort to the angelic symphony。



For if such holy song

Enwrap our fancy long;

Time will run back; and fetch the age of gold;

And speckled vanity

Will sicken soon and die;

And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould;

And Hell itself will pass away;

And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day。



Yea; Truth and Justice then

Will down return to men;

Orbed in a rainbow; and; like glories wearing;

Mercy will sit between

Throned in celestial sheen;

With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering;

And Heaven; as at some festival;

Will open wide the gates of her high palace hall。



But wisest Fate says No;

This must not yet be so;

The Babe yet lies in smiling infancy

That on the bitter cross

Must redeem our loss;

So both himself and us to glorify:

Yet first; to those ychained in sleep

The wakeful trump of doom must thunder through the deep;



With such a horrid clang

As on Mount Sinai rang

While the red fire and smouldering clouds outbrake:

The aged Earth aghast

With terror of that blast

Shall from the surface to the centre shake;

When; at the world's last session;

The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread His throne。



And then at last our bliss

Full and perfect is;

But now begins; for from this happy day

The old Dragon under ground;

In straiter limits bound;

Not half so far casts his usurped sway;

And; wroth to see his kingdom fail;

Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail。



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。



The lonely mountains o'er

And the resounding shore

A voice of weeping heard; and loud lament;

From haunted spring and dale

Edged with poplar pale

The parting Genius is with sighing sent;

With flower…inwoven tresses torn

The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn。



In consecrated earth

And on the holy hearth

The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint;

In urns; and altars round

A drear and dying sound

Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint;

And the chill marble seems to sweat;

While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat。



Peor and Baalim

Forsake their temples dim;

With that twice…battered god of Palestine;

And mooned Ashtaroth

Heaven's queen and mother both;

Now sits not girt with tapers' holy shine;

The Lybic Hammon shrinks his horn:

In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz mourn。



And sullen Moloch; fled;

Hath left in shadows dread

His burning idol all of blackest hue;

In vain with cymbals' ring

They call the grisly king;

In dismal dance about the furnace blue;

The brutish gods of Nile as fast;

Isis; and Orus; and the dog Anubis; haste。



Nor is Osiris seen

In Memphian grove; or green;

Trampling the unshowered grass with lowings loud:

Nor can he be at rest

Within his sacred chest;

Naught but profoundest Hell can be his shroud;

In vain with timbrelled anthems dark

The sable stoled sorcerers bear his worshiped ark。



He feels from Juda's land

The dreaded Infant's hand;

The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyen;

Nor all the gods beside

Longer dare abide

Nor Typhon huge ending in snaky twine:

Our Babe; to show his Godhead true;

Can in His swaddling bands control the damned crew。



So; when the sun in bed

Curtained with cloudy red

Pillows his chin upon an orient wave;

The flocking shadows pale

Troop to the infernal jail;

Each fettered ghost slips to his several grave:

And the yellow…skirted fays

Fly after the night…steeds; leaving their moon…loved maze。



But see! the Virgin blest

Hath laid her Babe to rest;

Time is; our tedious song should here have ending:

Heaven's youngest teemed star

Hath fixed her polished car;

Her sleeping Lord with hand…maid lamp attending:

And all about the courtly stable

Bright…harnessed Angels sit in order serviceable。



John Milton '1608…1674'













FAIRYLAND













THE FAIRY BOOK



In summer; when the grass is thick; if mother has the time;

She shows me with her pencil how a poet makes a rhyme;

And often she is sweet enough to choose a leafy nook;

Where I cuddle up so closely when she reads the Fairybook。



In winter; when the corn's asleep; and birds are not in song;

And crocuses and violets have been away too long;

Dear mother puts her thimble by in answer to my look;

And I cuddle up so closely when she reads the Fairybook。



And mother tells the servants that of course they must contrive

To manage all the household things from four till half…past five;

For we really cannot suffer interruption from the cook;

When we cuddle close together with the happy Fairybook。



Norman Gale '1862…





FAIRY SONGS



I

From 〃A Midsummer…Night's Dream〃



Over hill; over dale;

Through bush; through brier;

Over park; over pale;

Through flood; through fire;

I do wander everywhere;

Swifter than the moon's sphere;

And I serve the fairy queen;

To dew her orbs upon the green:

The cowslips tall her pensioners be;

In their gold coats spots you see;

Those be rubies; fairy favors;

In those freckles live their savors:

I must go seek some dew…drops here;

And hang a pearl

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