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Subject Area: Literature
Collection: Banned Books
Topic: Epic Literature

To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652. - John Milton, The Poetical Works of John Milton [1900]

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The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited after the Original Texts by the Rev. H.C. Beeching M.A. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900).

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To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652.

On the proposalls of certaine ministers at the Committee for Propagation of the Gospell.

  • Cromwell, our cheif of men, who through a cloud
  • Not of warr onely, but detractions rude,
  • Guided by faith & matchless Fortitude
  • To peace & truth thy glorious way hast plough’d,
  • And on the neck of crowned Fortune proud
  • Hast reard Gods Trophies, & his work pursu’d,
  • While Darwen stream with blood of Scotts imbru’d,
  • And Dunbarr field resounds thy praises loud,
  • And Worsters laureat wreath; yet much remaines
  • To conquer still; peace hath her victories10
  • No less renownd then warr, new foes aries
  • Threatning to bind our soules with secular chaines:
  • Helpe us to save free Conscience from the paw
  • Of hireling wolves whose Gospell is their maw.