MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON MILTON.

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

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TORONTO

WITH NOTES, ABSTRACT, chronologiCAL
SUMMARIES, &c., BY

H. B. Cotterill, M.A.

Silver Medallist of the Society of Arts
Editor of 'Selections from the Inferno,' Schiller's 'Lager'
Goethe's 'Iphigenie,' etc.

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

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O MIGHTY-MOUTH'D INVENTOR OF HARMONIES,
O SKILL'D TO SING OF TIME OR ETERNITY,
GOD-GIFTED ORGAN-VOICE OF ENGLAND,

MILTON, A NAME TO RESOUND FOR AGES;

WHOSE TITAN ANGELS, GABRIEL, ABDIEL,
STARR'D FROM JEHOVAH'S GORGEOUS ARMOURIES,
TOWER, AS THE DEEP-DOMED EMPYRËAN

RINGS TO THE ROAR OF AN ANGEL ONSET

ME RATHER ALL THAT BOWERY LONELINESS,
THE BROOKS OF EDEN MAZILY MURMURING,
AND BLOOM PROFUSE AND CEDAR ARCHES
CHARM, AS A WANDERER OUT IN OCEAN,

WHERE SOME REFULGENT SUNSET OF INDIA
STREAMS O'ER A RICH AMBROSIAL OCEAN ISLE,
AND CRIMSON-HUED THE STATELY PALMWOODS
WHISPER IN ODOROUS HEIGHTS OF EVEN.

-Tennyson.