Now Milton was born in 1608 and he wrote the Nativity Ode along with the Sixth Elegy, the Elegia Sexta, that we read for today in December of 1629, a couple of weeks presumably after he turned twenty-one.

弥尔顿出生于1608年,并于1629年12月写下《圣诞清晨歌》,《第六挽歌》和《Elegia，Sexta》,大概是他刚过21岁后两周。

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