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ENGLISH POEMS

BY

JOHN MILTON

EDITED

WITH LIFE, INTRODUCTION, AND SELECTED NOTES

BY

R. C. BROWNE, M.A.

ASSOCIATE OF KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON

Second EDITION, REVISED

VOL. II

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

M DCCC LXXII

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HARVARD

UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
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O MIGHTY-MOUTH'D

OF HARMONIES,

ETERNITY,

O SKILL'D TO SING OF TIME OR
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 EMPYREAN

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,
PALM WOODS

AND CRIMSON-HUED THE STATELY

WHISPER IN ODOROUS HEIGHTS OF EVEN.

INVENTOR

Tennyson.

III.

LAST POEMS, 1665-1671.

VOL. II.

(Continued.)

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