...Halcyon IDEAS shall have alit on the surging sea of his conceptions, " Which then shall quite forget to rave, While Birds of Calm sit brooding on the charmed wave." MILTON. But to return from the Personal, for which I have little taste at any time, and the contrary...

...Milton alludes in the following quaint but beautiful lines, from his unrivalled Ode on the Nativity. " The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist,...quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding o'er the charmed wave." The flight of the kingfisher is extremely rapid. Destined to live by destroying...

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...unrivalled Ode on the Nativity. " The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, AYhispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding o'er the charmed wave." The flight of the kingfisher is extremely rapid. Destined to live by destroying...

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...heard the world around, No hostile chiefs to furious combat ran ; But peaceful was the night In which the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began. The shepherds on the lawn, Before the point of dawn, In> social circle sat, while all around The gentle...

...heard the world around, No hostile chiefs to furious combat ran; But peaceful was the night In which the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began. The shepherds on the lawn, Before the point of dawn, In social circle sat, while all around The gentle...

...with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. I 1 nt peaceful was the night, ein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began : winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kist, Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, now hath...

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