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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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rates

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ɹeɪts/Used In Literature ↓

The worth of something; value.

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. ratesrates interestrates exchangerates growthrates taxrates highrates wage
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Poetry examples for rates

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These reactions to wet and dry periods are best explained by the highly significant nega-

tive simple correlation (-0.279) between rates of rainfall in the summer preparatory

period and the following fall and winter grazing period. The fact that a wet summer was

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