LINES PRINTED UNDER MILTON'S PORTRAIT
In Tonson's Folio Edition of the 'Paradise Lost,' 1688
Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed,
The next in majesty, in both the last:
The force of Nature could no farther go;
To make a third she joined the former two.
ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC
A SONG IN HONOR OF ST. CECILIA'S DAY: 1697
I
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
By Philip's warlike son:
Aloft in awful state
The godlike hero sate
On his imperial throne;
His valiant peers were placed around;
Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound:
(So should desert in arms be crowned.)
The lovely Thais, by his side,
Sate like a blooming Eastern bride,
In flower of youth and beauty's pride,
Happy, happy, happy pair!
None but the brave,
None but the brave,
None but the brave deserves the fair.