Eonchs of Ruby/Sonnet. On Reading Milton's Paradise Lost
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SONNET.
ON READING MILTON'S PARADISE LOST
Sweet as that soul-uplifting Hydromel Idean Ganymede did give to Jove In the God-kingdoms of Immortal Love—Dipt from Heaven's everlasting Golden Well—Was thy great song, celestial Israfel! Like that Apollo near the shining portals Of Heaven, in chariot, with celestial lyre, Sung for the thronging glorified Immortals, Which set the souls of all the gods on fire!So sweet my soul, entranced, seemed suddenly brought Before the star-crowned, blazing majestyOf those great Sages of immortal thought, And Poet-kings of deathless melody, Who now shake Heaven with thunderous Jubilee.