Milton (Alcaics)

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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.

© Alfred Tennyson