...deep organ blow ; And, with your ninefold harmony, Make up full consort2 to the angelic symphony.3 For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time...gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die ;4 And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould ; And hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous...

...heaven's deep organ blow ; And, with your ninefold harmony, Make up full concert to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time...and, like glories wearing, Mercy will sit between, Throned in celestial sheen, With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering ; And heaven, as at...

...your ninefold harmony, Make up full consort to the angelic symphony." "For if such holy song Inwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the...And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day." With the angelic chorus, Heaven's door swung open and tidings of joy were brought by God's messengers....

...heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. XIV For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time...And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. XV Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, The enamelled arras of the rainbow wearing;...

...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...

...been brought back to earth, and he gives an eloquent picture of its imminent arrival: And speckl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will...Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, Th' enamel'd arras of the rainbow wearing. And Mercy set between Thron'd in celestial sheen, With radiant...

...of gold, And speckl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mold, And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous...Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men. (lines 133-41) Milton's Sirens, it can be seen, are very different from the sirens of Tzvetan Todorov:...

...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...

...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...

...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...