...warrior, with confused noise and garments rolled in blood," until the Saviour's Advent. Then, indeed, " No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around...shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood, Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And kings sat still with...

...the world around, Th« idle spear and shield were high up hung; The unhooked chariot stood Unitain'd with hostile blood, The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful «ye AS if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. " And peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince...

...the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd by hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. An opportunity so marvellous might well seem heaven-sent; yet, in the relation between a successful...

...Christian thought, and reappears, for example, in Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity. No war or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd by hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng;...

...wide her mirtle wand, She slrilees a universal! Peace through Sea and Land. IV No War, or Battails sound Was heard the World around, The idle Spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked Chariot slood Unftain'd with hoslile hlood, The Trumpet Spake not to the armed throng, And Kings sate Hill...

...Milton's version of the phenomenon human as well as natural conflict is suspended: No war, or Battels sound Was heard the World around The idle Spear and...The Trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And Kings sate still with awfull eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. [53-60] The second stage...

...her gaudy trim, With her great master so to sympathize. 7535 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' No w 7536 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' Perbaps their loves, or else their sheep. Was all that did...

...clouds dividing, And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. 4 No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around;...spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot 10 stood Unstained with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And kings sat still...

...myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. 4 No war, or battle's sound Was beard the world around; The idle spear and shield were high up hung; The hooked chariot^ stood Unstained with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And kings sat still with awful...

...animates John Milton's poem "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," written in 1620: No War, or Battails sound Was heard the World around, The idle spear and...The Trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And Kings sate still with awfull eye, But peacefull was the night Wherin the Prince of light His raign of peace...