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• Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Il Penseroso, Line 79...
• And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Il Penseroso, Line 45...
• Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Il Penseroso, Line 173...
• Forget thyself to marble. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Il Penseroso, Line 42
• Twas midnight on the ocean, Her children all were orpha
  Not a streetcar was in sight, Except one a tiny tot, So I stepped into a cigar store Who had a home across the way To ask them for a light....
• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad
  Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale...
• Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
  And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd....
• By this time, like one who had set out on his way by nigh
  and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes....
• Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 221...