Milton ( Alcaics )

Alfred Lord Tennyson

   O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies,
   O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity,
       God-gifted organ-voice of England,
           Milton, a name to resound for ages;
   Whose Titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel,
   Starr'd from Jehovah's gorgeous armouries,
       Tower, as the deep-domed empyrean
           Rings to the roar of an angel onset--
   Me rather all that bowery loneliness,
   The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring,
       And bloom profuse and cedar arches
           Charm, as a wanderer out in ocean,
   Where some refulgent sunset of India
   Streams o'er a rich ambrosial ocean isle,
       And crimson-hued the stately palm-woods
           Whisper in odorous heights of even.

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