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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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The same thing happened over and over:

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Sylvia Plath·1932–1963
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8 | The Bell Jar I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, butas soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all. That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The lastthing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrowshoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off inall directions myself, like the coloured arrows from a Fourth of Julyrocket. I woke to the sound of rain. It was pitch dark. After a while I deciphered the faint outlines ofan unfamiliar window. Every so often a beam of light appeared outof thin air, traversed the wall like a ghostly, exploratory finger, andslid off into nothing again.
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