...armed throng; And kings sat still, with awful eye, As if they surely knew their Sovereign Lord was by. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of light, His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kias'd, Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who...

...meek ; there was no martial strain, no courtly pomp. " The 'jumpet spake not to the armed throng ; But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began." And there was peace on the mount, on green Olivet, and he ascended in the attitude of blessing. And...

...armed throng, And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by." "But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who...

...armed throng; And Kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began. The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed, Whispering new joys to the mild Ocean, Who...

...with the wave . . ." Milton in his "Hymn on the Nativity," thus alludes to the fable of the Halcyon : "But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began ; The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kist Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now...

...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 of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began; The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the wat«rs kist, Whisp'ring new joy§ to the mild ocean, Who...

...and the fifth brings the poem to a temporary stop with its careful building up of a sense of hush: But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began: The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kiss't, Whispering new joys to the mild Ocean, Who...

...with the wave . . . Milton in his 'Hymn on the Nativity', thus alludes to the fable of the Halcyon: But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began; The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kist Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now...

...similar pictures but different mottoes read: "Sweet messenger of calm decay and Peace Divine," and "But peaceful was the night, wherein the Prince of Light, His reign of peace upon the earth began" (Buday 1964, pi. 30). Such cards seem strangely morbid and difficult to comprehend today, but were...

...evokes what is to become the quintessential Caroline imagery, the halcyon moment. The night is peaceful 'Wherein the Prince of Light / His reign of peace upon the earth began' , the ocean still 'While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave' (lines 62-8). The central...