Milton

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“Come pensive Nun, devout and pure,
Sober, steadfast, and demure,
All in a robe of darkest grain,
Flowing with majestic train,
And sable stole of cypress lawn,
Over thy decent shoulders drawn.
Come, but keep thy wonted state,
With even step and musing gait,
And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes;
There held in holy passion still,
Forget thyself to marble,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)

“They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)

“And when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)