Have fetched about the Indian continent,
Even from Persepolis to Mexico,
And thence unto the straits of Jubaltar.”
This is still more Miltonic:—
“As when the seaman sees the Hyades
Gather an army of Cimmerian clouds,
Auster and Aquilon with wingèd steeds,
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All fearful folds his sails and sounds the main.”
Spenser, too, loved this luxury of sound, as he shows in such passages as this:—