We tear life out of life to use it for looking at
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or as long as and insofar as it cannot be, it isalmost always a reproach to everything that can. This world understands nothing but words, and youhave come into it with almost none.
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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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