 Join voices, all ye living Souls : Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep ; Witness if I be silent, morn...  Poetry for schools - 75 ページFrederick Charles Cook 著 - 1849全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - 2004 - 520 ページ
...^[Alluding to part of Adam and Eve's morning hymn, 5.2024, "Witness if I be silent, Morn or Eeven, / To Hill, or Valley, Fountain, or fresh shade / Made vocal by my Song, and taught his praise." [R] fThe "other . . . other" formula is a favorite form of emphasis with Milton. See "Comus" 611-12... | |
 | Mary C. Fenton - 2006 - 254 ページ
...evil: Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us onely good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or conceald, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. (5.205-8) Their prayer for God's protection against the ominous new presence in the darkness of the... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 ページ
...creatures to join their praise by doing what they naturally do, the vocal ones to "Join voices," and all to "Witness if I be silent, morn or even, / To hill,...shade / Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise" (5.197-204). "Witness if I be silent" means not only "Notice that I am not silent" but also "testify... | |
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