To be drudges till the last— (The red fire of their heart) And with pain that shall not part— In Eternity-we feel— But the shadow of whose brow What spirit shall reveal? Have dream'd for thy Infinity A model of their own; * Thy will is done, O God! The star hath ridden high Through many a tempest, but she rode Beneath thy burning eye; And here, in thought, to thee In thought that can alone *The Humanitarians held that God was to be understood as having really a human form.-Vide CLARKE'S Sermons, vol. i. p. 26, fol. edit. "The drift of Milton's argument leads him to employ language which would appear, at first sight, to verge upon their doctrine; but it will be seen immediately that he guards himself against the charge of having adopted one of the most ignorant errors of the dark ages of the Church."- DR. SUMNER'S Notes on Milton's Christian Doctrine. This opinion, in spite of many testimonies to the contrary, could never have been very general. Andeus, a Syrian of Mesopotamia, was condemned for the opinion, as heretical. Ascend thy empire, and so be My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of heaven." She ceased, and buried then her burning cheek, A shelter from the fervour of His eye; For the stars trembled at the Deity. She stirr'd not, breathed not; for a voice was there, A sound of silence on the startled ear, Which dreamy poets name "the music of the sphere." Ours is a world of words: Quiet we call Silence," which is the merest word of all. He lived in the beginning of the fourth century. His disciples were called Anthropomorphites.-Vide Du PIN. Among Milton's minor poems are these lines: "Dicite sacrorum præsides nemorum Deæ, &c. And afterwards, * "Non qui profundum Cæcitas lumen dedit "Seltsamen Tochter Jovis Seinem Schosskinde Der Phantasie."-GOETHE. All Nature speaks, and ev'n ideal things And the red winds are withering in the sky! "What though in worlds which sightless* cycles run, Link'd to a little system, and one sun— To the proud orbs that twinkle-and so be *"Sightless: too small to be seen."-LEGGE. + I have often noticed a peculiar movement of the fireflies; they will collect in a body and fly off, from a common centre, into innumerable radii. To ev'ry heart a barrier and a ban, Uprose the maiden in the yellow night, The single-moonèd eve!-on earth we plight Our faith to one love, and one moon adore : The birthplace of young Beauty had no more. As sprang that yellow star from downy hours, Uprose the maiden from her shrine of flowers, And bent o'er sheeny mountain and dim plain Her way, but left not yet her Therasæan reign.* PART II. HIGH on a mountain of enamell'd head- Into the sunlit ether, caught the ray * Therasæa, or Therasea, the island mentioned by Seneca, which, in a moment, arose from the sea to the eyes of astonished mariners. Of sunken suns at eve-at noon of night, Uprear'd upon such height arose a pile *Some star which, from the ruin'd roof Of shaked Olympus, by mischance, did fall."-MILTON. |