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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Doe
Near
Appear
Drawing
East
Star
Dawning
Stars
Flaming
Morning
Locks
Tell
Bright

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