Posts Tagged ‘Paradise Regained’
Milton – born
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John Milton – birth, Dec. 9, 1608
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“The Lord Will Come and Not Be Slow” (stanzas 3-6)
Rise, God, judge Thou the earth in might,
This wicked earth redress;
For Thou art He who shalt by right
The nations all possess.
The nations all whom Thou hast made
Shall come, and all shall frame
To bow them low before Thee, Lord!
And glorify Thy Name!
Truth from the earth, like to a flower,
Shall bud and blossom then,
And justice, from her heavenly bower,
Look down on mortal men.
Thee will I praise, O Lord, my God!
Thee honor and adore
With my whole heart; and blaze abroad
Thy Name forevermore!
John Milton was born this date, 12/9/1608, in London. He is known for his Paradise Lost (1667), Paradise Regained(1671). Religiously John moved from Anglican to Presbyterian to Independent.
John Milton – death, Nov 8, 1674
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“On the Late Late Massacre in Piedmont”
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold;
Ev’n them who kept the truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones,
Forget not: in thy book record their groans
Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold
Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled
Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans
The vales redoubled to the hills, and they
To heav’n. Their martyred blood and ashes sow
O’er all th’ Italian fields, where still doth sway
The triple Tyrant that from these may grow
A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way,
Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
John Milton, one of the greatest (if not the greatest) poet of England died 11/6/1674 in London. He is best known for Paradise Lost (1667), Paradise Regained (1671) but this is a good sonnet of his. Milton was a philosopher, hynmist, poet, and theologian.