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Quotes from Comus — John Milton

1608–1674 England

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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul
And lap it in Elysium.

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The star that bids the shepherd fold,
Now the top of heaven doth hold.

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I was all ear,
And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of death.

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With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.

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And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

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Or that power
Which erring men call chance.

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And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.

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But such a sacred and home-felt delight,
Such sober certainty of waking bliss,
I never heard till now.

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What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid?

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Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded,
But must be current, and the good thereof
Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

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Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.

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If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.

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There does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.

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And in requital ope his leathern scrip,
And show me simples of a thousand names,
Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.

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Chaos, that reigns here
In double night of darkness and of shades.

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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown
In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities,
Where most may wonder at the workmanship.

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Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.

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O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot
Which men call Earth.

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And the gilded car of day,
His glowing axle doth allay
In the steep Atlantic stream.

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