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The never-ending flight Of future days.

John Milton

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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
Poet
Politician
Writer
Future
Never
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Flight
Days

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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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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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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
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