text:  Why did not Milton leave us half a book or some fifty verses that we might know what the utmost poetical power and the utmost mastery of our speech and the utmost resources of our verse could effect? The inspiring expressive music of the original tongue clothes the simplest and most unadorned word and phrase in wealth splendour gorgeous majesty prodigal magnificence; and this not with any incongruence or disharmony any more than Eve's GOLDEN tresses were excessive ornament unmeet for the primitive simplicity of Eden