An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton / Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.

by John Milton

Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age,

Thou in old age car'st how to nurse thy son,

Made older than thy age through eye-sight lost.

Manoa. It shall be my delight to tend his eyes, 1490

And view him sitting in the house, ennobled

With all those high exploits by him achieved,

And on his shoulders waving down those locks

That of a nation armed the strength contained.

And I persuade me, God had not permitted 1495

His strength again to grow up with his hair