First Line: THREE POETS, IN THREE DISTANT AGES BORN Last Line: TO MAKE A THIRD, SHE JOINED THE FORMER TWO. Subject(s): MILTON, JOHN (1608-1674);
THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third, she joined the former two.