 | 1909 - 502 pages
...glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if 7 be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade,...still To give us only good; and, if the night Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark." So prayed they innocent,... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...lowly creep ! Witness if I be silent, morn, or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, 222 Hail, universal LORD ! be bounteous still To give...conceal'd, Disperse it, — as now, light dispels the dark. Milton. 23. THE SEASONS, A HYMN. THESE, as they change, Almighty Father ! these, Are but the varied... | |
 | John A. Ramsaran - 1973 - 246 pages
...voice of the bard seems to join the voices of Adam and Eve: Witness if I be silent, Morn or Eeven, To Hill, or Valley, Fountain, or fresh shade Made vocal by my Song, and taught his praise. 15.202-04] . . .Everywhere in the poem we hear this human, flexible, responsive voice of an individual... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...yee that walk The Earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep; Witness if I be silent. Morn or Eeven, To Hill, or Valley, Fountain, or fresh shade Made...Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us onely good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or conceald, Disperse it, as now light dispels... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...less liturgical.49 The first parents conclude with the prayer that if the night Have gather'd aught of evil or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. (V. 206-8) And Milton's own hymn opens with the prayer to disperse the evil of his night, "What in... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...yet happiest if ye seek No happier state, and know to know no more. (Bk. IV, 1. 750-775) OBS; SeCePo Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail...still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. (Bk. V, 1. 195-208)... | |
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - 1995 - 254 pages
...Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still 205 To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. The hymn is offered as if it might be an appropriate canticle — this one recalling especially the... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...glide, and ye that walk 200 The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade...still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. So prayed they innocent,... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...glide, and yee that walk 200 The Earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep; Witness if I be silent, Morn or Even, To Hill, or Valley, Fountain, or fresh shade Made vocal by my Song, and taught hi? praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still 205 To give us only good; and if the night Have... | |
 | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - 2004 - 520 pages
...^[Alluding to part of Adam and Eve's morning hymn, 5.2024, "Witness if I be silent, Morn or Eeven, / To Hill, or Valley, Fountain, or fresh shade / Made vocal by my Song, and taught his praise." [R] fThe "other . . . other" formula is a favorite form of emphasis with Milton. See "Comus" 611-12... | |
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Join voices, all ye living Souls : Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep ; Witness if I be silent, morn... 
