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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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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

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William Wordsworth·1770–1850
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HE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE,IN SEVEN PARTS.  ARGUMENT. How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the coldCountry towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her courseto the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strangethings that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back tohis own Country.
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