John Milton on Argonautica
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“...hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering.”
“Like Maia's son he stood, And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance filled The circuit wide.”
“The angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear.”
“How the Serpent, whom they called Ophion with Eurynome, the wide- Encroaching Eve perhaps, had first the rule Of high Olympus, thence by Saturn driven.”