If, fallen in evil days on evil tongues,
Milton appealed to the Avenger, Time,
If Time, the Avenger, execrates his wrongs,
And makes the word "Miltonic" mean "_sublime_",
_He_ deign'd not to belie his soul in songs,
Nor turn his very talent to a crime;
_He_ did not loathe the sire to laud the son,
But closed the tyrant-hater he begun.