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Quotation from The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes by John Milton

“This is the Month, and this the happy morn”

John Milton (spoken by Speaker)

The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, On the Morning of Christs Nativity, st. 1, l. 1 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works))

The opening line of the ode, composed in 1629 when Milton was twenty-one.

Citation: "This is the Month, and this the happy morn" — John Milton, The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, On the Morning of Christs Nativity, st. 1, l. 1 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works)). (id milton-shorter-poems-and-samson-agonistes-q1)

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