Milton lyrics Author:John Milton 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: Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity. To ... more »such my errand is; and, but for such, I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With-the rank vapours of this sin-worn mould. But to my task. Neptune, besides the sway Of every salt flood and each ebbing stream, Took in, by lot 'twixt high and nether Jove, Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deen: Which he, to grace his tributary gods, By course commits to s£ve.rjjgovernment, And gives them leave to wear their sapphire crowns, And wield their little tridents. But this Isle, The greatest and the best of all the main, He quarters to his blue-haired deities ; And all this tract that fronts the falling sun 30 A noble Peer of mickle trust and power Has in his charge, with tempered awe to guide An old and haughty nation, proud in arms: Where his fair offspring, nursed in princely lore, Are coming to attend their father's state, And new-entrusted sceptre. But their way Lies through the perplexed paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger ; And here tjieir jguder-age might suffer peril, 40 But that, by quick command from sovran Jove, I was dispatched for their defence and guard: And listen why, for I will tell you now What never yet was heard in tale or song, From old or modern bard, in hall or bower. aaij ! Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape f Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine, After the Tuscan mariners transformed, Coasting the Tyrrhene shore, as the winds listed, On Circe's island fell. (Who knows not Circe, 50 The daughter of the Sun, whose...« less