Note 60 — THE WORKS AND DAYS.
George Chapman translation
Holy demons rove This breathing world.]
Milton is thought to have copied Hesiod in this passage:
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
But the coincidence seems merely incidental, as the parallel wants completeness. There is nothing of angelic guardianship or judicial inspection in the spirits of Milton: he says only,
All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill, or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive to each other’s note, Singing their great Creator? Par. Lost, iv.