John Milton Poems

XVIII

Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench
Of Brittish Themis, with no mean applause
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Done into Verse, 1653.


Bless'd is the man who hath not walk'd astray
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X

Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of Englands Counsel, and her Treasury,
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I

O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray
Warbl'st at eeve, when all the Woods are still,
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Daughter to that good Earl, one President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both unstained with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content,
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XVI

When I consider how my light is spent,
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
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XVII


Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son,
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So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood
A while as mute, confounded what to say,
What to reply, confuted and convinced
Of his weak arguing and fallacious drift;
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XX

Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son,
Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire,
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XIV

When Faith and Love which parted from thee never,
Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God,
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