Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all i…

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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. ✨ John Milton (1874). The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson, p.191
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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. ✨ John Milton (1874). The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson, p.191

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