...of tangled thickets mourn. XXI. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemurcs moan with midnight plaint, In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamins at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes...

...awful Hymn on the Nativity : — In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. In urns and altars round,...While each Peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat. But Ovid tells a story of a gossiping nymph Lara, who having told Juno of her husband's amour with...

...tangled thickets mourn. XXI In consecrated Earth, And on the holy Hearth, 190 The Lars, and Lemures moan with midnight plaint, In Urns, and Altars round, A drear, and dying sound Affrights the Flamins at their service quaint; And the chill Marble seems to sweat, 195 While each peculiar power...

...shade of tangled thickets mourn. XXI In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round,...chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat XXII Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered god...

...DEITIES THE FLIGHT OF MOLOCH xxi In consecrated Earth, And on tie My Hearth, The Lars, and Lemures moan with midnight plaint, In Urns, and Altars round, A drear, and dying sound Affrights the Flamins at their service quaint; And the chitt Marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes...

...banished, the geniuses and nymphs, ancestral spirits and spirits of the dead sent weeping away, and In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound...chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat, (lines 192-6) Milton's contemporary implications are clear - a true celebration...

...shade of tangled thickets mourn. 21 In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemurs^2 moan with midnight plaint; In urns and altars round,...chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat. 22 Peor and Baalim 3 5 29. Satan; cf. Rev. 20:2-3. 30. The Greek mount and...

...the Morning of Christ's Nativity": In consecrated Earth And on the holy Hearth The Lars and Lémures moan with midnight plaint, In Urns, and Altars round, A drear, and dying sound Affrights the Flamins at their service quaint. 7 Throughout the Hebrew Bible itself we find traces of the residual...

...In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, 190 The lars, and lemures moan with midnight plaint,0 In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint;0 And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat.0 XXII...