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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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fa

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/fɑ/Used In Literature ↓

A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale.

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. fadavis facup fafa si
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Poetry examples for fa

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

this principle. It is therefore the violent shocks of the highest provocations struggling

with what Amintor thought his eternal duty -, of nature rebelling against principle (a<} a fa*

mous partisan for this doctrine in Queen Ann's reign expressed it, wnen he happened not to

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Thus the line B 3385 used to be cut up after the following fashion--Which

that | my fa | der in his | prosper | itee; and the third foot was called

trisyllabic. Yet the truth is, that the syllable _-der_ in _fader_ really

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