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John Milton
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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
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Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.
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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
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Our country is where ever we are well off.
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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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