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It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
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Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
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Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell myself am hell And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.
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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
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The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.
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