Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COSMOGRAPHY, by ARTHUR HOBART NETHERCOT


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First Line: John milton saw the universe aswing
Last Line: Saw god look at him through the window pane.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Milton, John (1608-1674)


John Milton saw the universe aswing
By a delicate golden cable from the floor
Of heaven, like a censer. Challenging,
Its cup defied black chaos, which before
Had raged against the crystal battlements
Where angels walked. A hollowed amethyst,
The censer hung; and its circumference
Embraced its flame, the earth, in coil and twist.
Up through the air, past sphere on singing sphere,
Earth's incense wound to heaven's glassy zone,
Where God the Father smiled as it drew near
And bent from his chryselephantine throne.
But William Blake, an urchin in a lane,
Saw God look at him through the window pane.





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