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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
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Politician
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Illumine
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.
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Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not in this we stand or fall.
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Impostor do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
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