quote · Legacy record
Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune His praise. Join voices all ye living souls: ye birds, That singing up to heaven’s 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 or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught His praise.
Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune His praise. Join voices all ye living souls: ye birds, That singing up to heaven’s 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 or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught His praise.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 453 · printed citation: Milton · subject: PRAISE
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