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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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Hears he now the Voice that wrong’d him? who

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson·1809–1892
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ifty such as he. Ere she gain her Heavenly-best, a God must minglewith the game:Nay, there may be those about us whom we neither see nor name, Felt within us as ourselves, the Powers of Good,the Powers of Il,Strowing balm, or shedding poison in the fountains of the Will. Follow you the Star that lights a desert pathway,yours or mine.Forward, till you see the highest Human Nature is divine.
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