...Milton describes in Paradise Lost, Book 1, from line 742 onwards: Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,...setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star. So this is a warning, then, after the elucidatory prayer of thanks in the previous quatrain - a warning...

...Mosychlus, in the Island of Lemnos. " From mom To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day 5 and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos th1 JSgean isle," Milton. Of course, to any one but a god such a terrible fall would have...

...rolled once, then twice before sliding to a rest in the trampled brown grass. Chapter Twenty-Three . . .from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day, and with the setting sun Droptfrom the zenith, like a falling star. — John Milton, Paradise Lost, I 44 T Taughn?" Mary skidded...