John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued) |
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| Then to the spicy nut-brown ale. |
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| Tower’d cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. |
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| Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize. |
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| Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson’s learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. |
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| And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, 1 Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. |
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| Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. |
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| The gay motes that people the sunbeams. |
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| And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. |
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| Forget thyself to marble. |
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| And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. |
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| And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. |
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| Sweet bird, that shun’st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! |
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| Note 1. Wisdom married to immortal verse.—William Wordsworth: The Excursion, book vii. [back] |