And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, 190

And now was dropt into the western bay;

At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue;

To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new.

John Milton.

CXXVI
THE CHRISTIAN’S REPLY TO THE PHILOSOPHER.

The good in graves as heavenly seed are sown;

And at the saints’ first spring, the general doom,

Will rise, not by degrees, but fully blown;

When all the angels to their harvest come.