Milton

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    What call’st thou solitude? Is not the earth
    With various living creatures, and the air
    Replenished, and all these at thy command
    To come and play before thee?
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    Hail holy Light, of spring of Heav’n first-born,
    Or of th’ Eternal Coeternal beam
    May I express thee unblam’d? since God is Light,
    And never but in unapproached Light
    Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee,
    Bright effluence of bright essence in create.
    Or hear’st thou rather pure Ethereal stream,
    Whose Fountain who shall tell?
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    Nor aught availed him now
    To have built in heav’n high tow’rs; nor did he scape
    By all his engines, but was headlong sent
    With his industrious crew to build in hell.
    —John Milton (1608–1674)