I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the rank vapours of this sin-worn mould. But to my task. Neptune, besides the sway Of every salt flood and each ebbing stream, Took in by lot 'twixt high and nether Jove Imperial rule of all the sea-girt... The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political ... - Page 492 by David Masson - 1859 Full view - |