 | John Milton - English poetry - 1874 - 504 pages
...organ blow ; 1 30 And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. XIV. For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time...from earthly mould ; And Hell itself will pass away, 139 And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. . XV. Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down... | |
 | 1848 - 636 pages
...when weary? Milton's verse in the ' Christmas Hymn ' seems a prophecy Handel was sent to fulfil — ' For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time...speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous bin will melt from earthly mould : And hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...greater power, and, as a result, the difficulties which attend it could have no more dire consequences. For if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speikl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mold, And Hell itself... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - Clergy - 1989 - 244 pages
...temple-veil and bid it fall, or, worse still, Milton's poems set as hymns, containing such lines as: And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould, all of which may be very fine in its way but is quite beyond the comprehension of the pupils here.... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...Once bless our human ears, (lines 115-6) the poet implores in 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity': For if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mold, And Hell itself... | |
 | Lana Cable - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 252 pages
...pleasure is our sustained creative repudiation of the outward manifestations of worldly corruption: For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time...And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. 24 Under the holy spell of sustained creative vision, or "fancy," evil falls away and makes space for... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...bliss. It was a mood which he had touched upon metaphorically in the Nativity Ode of the previous year: Time will run back and fetch the age of gold, And...die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould . . . Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men . . . In the second movement of this new... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - History - 1998 - 204 pages
...surely is surprising that the beatific vision itself should consist largely in the absence of evil: For if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould And Hell it... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...displayed. 7538 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Tune 7539 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' And hell itself will pass away. And leave her dolorous mansions... | |
 | Richard Bradford - Electronic books - 2001 - 236 pages
...pre-Christian world. In stanza 14, in the middle section, Milton evokes the effect of the angelic choir. 61 For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long. Time...And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die. And iep'rous sin will melt from earthly mould, And hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions... | |
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For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould... 
