...mourn with midnight plaint In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Klamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems...Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twicc-batter'd god of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen and mother both, Now sita not...

...awful Hymn on the Nativity : — In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. In urns and altars round,...While each Peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat. But Ovid tells a story of a gossiping nymph Lara, who having told Juno of her husband's amour with...

...awful Hymn on the Nativity : — In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. In urns and altars round,...While each Peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat. But Ovid tells a story of a gossiping nymph Lara, who having told Juno of her husband's amour with...

...his awful Hymn on the Nativity:— In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. In urns and altars round,...While each Peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat. But Ovid tells a story of a gossiping nymph Lara, who having told Juno of her husband's amour with...

...shade of tangled thickets mourn 11 In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round,...seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes hit wonted seat "Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-l/atter'd god of Palestine...

...leaving their favourite haunts. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures1 moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens2 at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes...

...shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated earth, . ' And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round,...the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Pow'r foregoes his wonted seat. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice batter'd...

...serrice quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted scat. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that...mother both, Now sits not girt with tapers* holy shine J The Libyac Hammon shrinks his horn ; In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thammuz mourn. And sullen...

...the idols and fearful rites of ancient Superstition described, in Milton's Hymn on the Nativity 1 " In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound...Affrights the Flamens, at their service quaint." " And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left, in shadows dread, His burning idol, all of blackest hue ; . [In With...

...the steep of Delphos leaving. " Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered god of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen and mother, both, Now sits not, girt with taper's holy shine. " Nor is Osiris seen, In Memphian grove or green, Trampling the unshowered grass...