 Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.  Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 334by John Milton - 1750Full view - About this book
 | James Chapman - Elocution - 286 pages
...all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars ! last in the train of night, — If better thou belong not to the dawn, — Sure pledge of day ! that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, — praise him in thy sphere, While day arises,... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1926 - 964 pages
...perhaps, to the North Italian or Venetian blood in his veins, from the ancient into the modern world. Last in the train of night If better thou belong not to the dawn. And it was from him that thirteen hundred years after his death Dante received the torch of poetry,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1968 - 376 pages
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 | Reeve Parker - 1975 - 284 pages
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 | Literature - 1967 - 634 pages
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 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Religion - 1954 - 452 pages
...Milton, in Paradise Lost, refers to this double character and office of Venus : "Fairest of stars! last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn; Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet: praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that... | |
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