...quiic, With unexpressive notes, to Heaven's new born Heir. Such music as 'tis said Never before was made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While...the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung : And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves...

...pleasure loth to lose, With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly close." And again, — ^ " Such music as 'tis said, Before was never made ; But...the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung ; And cast the dark foundations deep, < And bid the weltering waves...

...with wings disHarping, in loud and solemn quire, [Heir. With unexpressive notes, to Heaven's new-born Such music, as 'tis said, Before was never made, But...the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung ; And cast the dark foundations deep, [keep. And bid the weltering...

...surrounds their sight A globe of circular light, That with long beams the shamefac'd night array'd ; Had stole them from me : else, 0 thievish night, Why...felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up t uuexpressive notes, to Heaven's new-born heir. Such music, as 'tis said, Before was never made, But...

...surrounds their sight A globe of circular light, That with long beams the shamefac'd night array'd ; lf the world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd uueipressive notes, to Heaven's new-born heir. Such music, as 'tis said, Before was never made, But...

...close and guard the gate of Paradise, to that night of gladness, in which " sworded seraphim" Were " seen in glittering ranks, with wings display'd, Harping...With unexpressive notes, to heaven's new-born heir ;" — is one continuous record of angelic visitations. In no way, perhaps, have the painter and sculptor...

...quire, With unexpressive notes, to Heaven's new born Heir. Such music as 'tis said Never before was made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While...the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung : And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves...

...quire, With unexpressive notes, to Heaven's new born Heir. Such music as 'tis said Never before was made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While...the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung : And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves...

...And sworded seraphim, Harping in lend and solemn quire, With unexpressive notes to heaven's new-Lorn Heir. Such music (as 'tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning song, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung, And...

...themselves within the sea." The passage in Milton's " Ode on the Nativity," in which he speaks of - Such music (as 'tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung,'' will occur to every reader. In Allan Cunningham's " Lives of the British Painters," in his biography...