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I Was All Ear, And Took In Strains That Might Create A Soul Under The Ribs Of Death.
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I was all ear,
And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of death.
-- John Milton (1608-1674)
-- Comus, Line 560
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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
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Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
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