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What is dark within me, illumine.

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
Poet
Politician
Writer
Illumine
Within
Dark

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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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Earth felt the wound and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!
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