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Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

John Milton

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.
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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
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