...throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sov'reign lord was by. But ight To the misled and lonely traveller! This is the...place, as well as I mar guess, Whence even now the kiss'd, Whispering new joys to the mild Ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm...

...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...peace upon the earth began : The winds with wonder whist,2 Smoothly the waters kissed, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean ; Who now hath quite forgot...

...the earth around, — No hostile chiefs to furious combat ran ; But peaceful was the night In which the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began. 2 No conqueror's sword he bore, Nor warlike armor wore, Nor haughty passions roused to contest wild...

...the earth around, — No hostile chiefs to furious combat ran ; But peaceful was the night In which the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began. 2 No conqueror's sword he bore, Nor warlike armor wore, Nor haughty passions roused to contest wild...

...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...The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kiss't, Whispering new joys to the mild Ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While Birds of Calm...

...the earth began: The Windes with wonder whisl, Smoothly the waters hfy Whirring newjoyes to the milde Ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While Birds of Calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. vi Tbe Stars with deep amaze Stand fxt in sledfaffgaze, Bending one way their pretious influence, And...

...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...While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. Keats, also, in Endymion, says: O magic sleep! O comfortable bird That broodest o'er the troubled sea...

...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 conceit...

...throng, And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sov'reign Lord was by. 5 But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light...winds, with wonder whist, ' ' Smoothly the waters kissed, Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm...