Excerpt from Selected Poems of John Milton: L'allegro, IL Penseroso, Comus, Lycidas Was Phoebus' choice thou hast thy gift and Mine also; and between us we receive, Father and son, the whole inspiring god. My Father who, when I had opened once The stores of Roman rhetoric, and learned The full-toned language of the eloquent Greeks, Whose lofty music graced the lips of Jove, Thyself didst counsel me to add the flowers That Gallia boasts, those, too, with which the smooth Italian his degenerate speech adorns, That witnesses his mixture with the Goth And Palestine's prophetic songs divine. Cooper's translation.10 milton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.