Excerpt from The Vision of Christ in the Poets: Selected Studies of the Christian Faith as Interpreted by Milton, Wordsworth, the Brownings, Tennyson, Whittier, Longfellow, LowellWe own thy sway, we hear thy call, We test our lives by thine!The Son of man is the central figure of modern poetry. Milton's first Vision of him is'in the ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity. The cen tral thought of the poem is, that his birth is the death of paganism, that his light drives away heathen darkness, and his truth heathen error. N ow, that he has come.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.