Not only that there will be a redemption, but that there must be a
             redemption act present in several ways in John Milton's poem "On the
             Morning of Christ's Nativity". The redemption act--not being a reaction of
             God to Humanity's Fall, for such a dependency on Humanity by God is not in
             keeping with the absolute and divine nature of the Creator--is significant
             in this poem not necessarily for its bringing Humanity into its divine
             inheritance, but rather for its greater purpose of fulfilling the Creator's
             Man, who exists in this fallen world, would desire immediate communion
             with the divine state if he could but conceive of it. Milton, who exercises
             his Reason, that heavenly faculty, albeit tainted by the Fall, that allows
             him at least some conception of what that heavenly reality is like. This
             inkling that Milton gets sends him into an enraptured climax in which he
             speculates and fantasizes about an imminent Heaven on Earth that could have
             happened concurrently with the birth of the Savior. "For if such holy song/
             Enwrap our fancy long,"[accent added](lines 132-133) Milton muses and then
             finally finishes, "And heaven as at some high festival ,/ Will open wide
             the gates of her high palace hall"(lines 147-148). However pleasing this
             thought of salvation through a melodious holy song may be to Milton, he has
             not truly accepted this idea of heaven without the redemptive act; he has
             conditioned the entire idea on a single "if." This "if" is answered
             immediately in the stanza following the divine vision by a "but," which
             sets up the literary movement towards the climax of Milton's necessity of
             In stanza 16 the abruptness of the transition, "But wisest fate says
             no,/ This must not yet be so," wrenches to focus of the poem from an
             idyllic state of Man to the actual state of Man. At once we are reminded
             that this ...