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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

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The helmed Cherubim,
And sworded Seraphim,
Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

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In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

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As when the potent Rod Of Amrams Son in Egypt's evil day Wav'd round the Coast, up call'd a pitchy cloud Of Locusts, warping on the Eastern Wind, That ore the Realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like Night, and darkened all the Land of Nile

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

John Milton

John Milton

John Milton

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Born: December 9, 1608

Died: November 8, 1674 (aged 65)

Bio: John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.

Known for:

Paradise Lost (1667)
Lycidas (1638)
Milton's 1645 Poems
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

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