EPIGRAM.
When first the Devil came in Milton’s viewA swindging Tail[24]upon his rump there grew:But when in Pandæmomium he appearsHow alter’d is his form! no tail he wears.Such difference in that Personage is seenAs Milton by himself perceived, betweenHis full-grown Epic and his stripling Ode—His tadpole Devil had become a Toad.
When first the Devil came in Milton’s viewA swindging Tail[24]upon his rump there grew:But when in Pandæmomium he appearsHow alter’d is his form! no tail he wears.Such difference in that Personage is seenAs Milton by himself perceived, betweenHis full-grown Epic and his stripling Ode—His tadpole Devil had become a Toad.
When first the Devil came in Milton’s viewA swindging Tail[24]upon his rump there grew:But when in Pandæmomium he appearsHow alter’d is his form! no tail he wears.Such difference in that Personage is seenAs Milton by himself perceived, betweenHis full-grown Epic and his stripling Ode—His tadpole Devil had become a Toad.
When first the Devil came in Milton’s view
A swindging Tail[24]upon his rump there grew:
But when in Pandæmomium he appears
How alter’d is his form! no tail he wears.
Such difference in that Personage is seen
As Milton by himself perceived, between
His full-grown Epic and his stripling Ode—
His tadpole Devil had become a Toad.
[24]——th’ old Dragon———wroth to see his kingdom fail,Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail.Ode on the Nativity.
[24]——th’ old Dragon———wroth to see his kingdom fail,Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail.Ode on the Nativity.
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——th’ old Dragon———wroth to see his kingdom fail,Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail.Ode on the Nativity.
——th’ old Dragon———wroth to see his kingdom fail,Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail.Ode on the Nativity.
——th’ old Dragon———wroth to see his kingdom fail,Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
——th’ old Dragon—
——wroth to see his kingdom fail,
Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
Ode on the Nativity.
Ode on the Nativity.