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— John Milton

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15

Afford a present to the Infant God?

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome him to this his new abode,

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A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.

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Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

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A.E. Housman·1859–1936
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.  Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.  And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
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