Three Poets, In Three Distant Ages Born, Greece, Italy, And England Did Adorn.

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Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd;
The next, in majesty; in both the last.
The force of Nature could no further go;
To make a third, she join'd the former two.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700)
-- Under Mr. Milton's Picture

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