...this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. SHAEESPEARE. ..mi" THE SAME. RING out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears ; (If ye have power to charm our senses so ;) And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the base of Heaven's...

...angel sings.' Let us next recall two passages from Milton, the first from the hymn On the Nativity : Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human...silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow ; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic...

...concentrate on its structure. A brief analysis of two stanzas will indicate something of the technique. xiii Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human...your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic...

...the organ (in its metaphorical sense, of course) : Ring out ye Crystall sphears Once bless our humane ears, (If ye have power to touch our senses so) And...chime Move in melodious time; And let the Base of Heav'ns deep Organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the' Angelike symphony....

...the sons of morning sung, / while the Creator great / his constellations set / and the well-balanced world on hinges hung, / and cast the dark foundations...bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.' (Hymn on the Nativlty). Vgl. auch die Aufforderung zur Lobeserhebung bei Milton, Paradise Lost V 160-208;...

...reliance on the world's intelligibility: the Creator Great His constellations set, And the well-balanc't world on hinges hung, And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the welt'ring waves their oozy channel keep. ("On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," 120-124) Even water,...

...old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator Great His constellations set, And the well-balanc't world on hinges hung, And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the welt'ring waves their oozy channel keep. (stanza XII) The "sons of morning" is an allusion to Job 38....

...spheres, crowned — as it is characteristically in Christian conceptions — by the music of angels: Ring out ye crystal spheres. Once bless our human...your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic...

...need; He saw a greater Sun appear Than his bright throne or burning axle-tree could bear. (1. 49-56) 39 nd free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire and Victory. bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic...

...ears to recognise. Milton, in his 'Hymn on the Nativity', thus alludes to the music of the spheres: Ring out, ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to charm our senses so); And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the base of Heaven's...