Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from al…

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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul. ✨ John Milton, Thomas Keightley (1859). Poems, p.55
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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul. ✨ John Milton, Thomas Keightley (1859). Poems, p.55

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