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At His birth, a star Unseen before in Heaven, proclaims Him come, And guides the eastern sages, who inquire His place, to offer incense, myrrh, and gold, His place of birth, a solemn angel tells To simple shepherds, keeping watch by night: They gladly thither haste, and by a choir Of squadroned angels, hear His carol sung: A Virgin is His Mother, but His Sire, The Power of the Most High.
At His birth, a star Unseen before in Heaven, proclaims Him come, And guides the eastern sages, who inquire His place, to offer incense, myrrh, and gold, His place of birth, a solemn angel tells To simple shepherds, keeping watch by night: They gladly thither haste, and by a choir Of squadroned angels, hear His carol sung: A Virgin is His Mother, but His Sire, The Power of the Most High.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1608–1674)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 568 · printed citation: Milton · subject: STARS
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