MILTON’S MINOR POEMS.
ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST’S NATIVITY.
[Composed 1629.]
I.
This is the month, and this the happy morn,
Wherein the Son of Heaven’s eternal King,
Of wedded maid and virgin mother born,
Our great redemption from above did bring;
[For so the holy sages once did sing], 5
That he [our deadly forfeit should release],