On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
A hymn for Christmas morning opens on a winter landscape hushed by peace, moves through the shepherds on the lawn and the music of the spheres, then turns to the pagan oracles falling silent one by one across the ancient world. Written on Christmas morning 1629, when Milton was twenty-one, and placed first in his collected poems.
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- retells ↑ The Gospels
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