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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MILTON, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poet's Biography
First Line: His feet were shod with music and had wings
Last Line: Soared in a solitude of glorious light!
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674)
First Line: His feet were shod with music and had wings
Last Line: Soared in a solitude of glorious light!
Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674)
HIS feet were shod with music and had wings
Like Hermes: far upon the peaks of song
His sandals sounded silverly along;
The dull world blossomed into beauteous things
Where'er he trod; and Heliconian springs
Gushed from the rocks he touched; round him a throng
Of fair invisibles, seraphic, strong,
Struck Orphean murmurs out of golden strings;
But he, spreading keen pinions for a white
Immensity of radiance and of peace,
Up-looming to the Empyrean infinite,
Far through ethereal fields, and zenith seas,
High, with strong wing-beats and with eagle ease,
Soared in a solitude of glorious light!
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