StoryTitle("caps", "The Peaceful Night") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", SmallCapsText("John Milton") ) ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(18, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But peaceful was the night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wherein the Prince of Light", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " His reign of peace upon the earth began.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The winds with wonder whist,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Smoothly the waters kist,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Whispering new joys to the mild Ocean,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who now hath quite forgot to rave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmèd wave.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The stars, with deep amaze,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stand fixed in steadfast gaze,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Bending one way their precious influence;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And will not take their flight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For all the morning light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Or Lucifer that often warned them thence;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But in their glimmering orbs did glow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Until their Lord himself bespake, and bid them go.", "") ?>
PagePoem(19, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, though the shady gloom", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had given day her room,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " The sun himself withheld his wonted speed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hid his head for shame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As his inferior flame", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " The new-enlightened world no more should need:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He saw a greater Sun appear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than his bright throne or burning axletree could bear.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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"2", "2", "[Illustration]", SmallCapsText( "The Holy Night")) ?>