We naturally thought that it was the poet John Milton who was speaking the first 185 lines of the poem.

我们自然会认为是诗人弥尔顿自己,在言说着前185行诗。

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In Hardy here, and in other poems, there's this sort of wonderfully, self-consciously archaic language.

哈迪的这首诗还有其他诗中，有一种,绝妙的不自然的古英语。

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Milton naturally wrote his friend letters in impeccable Latin verse, and this one he seems to have composed almost immediately after having written, having completed,the Nativity Ode.

弥尔顿用毫无瑕疵的拉丁文很自然的给朋友写信，而且这首诗,是在弥尔顿一写完《圣诞清晨歌》,就拿去排版的。

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