A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes…

John Milton
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses ✨ 1634 Comus, A Mask, l.204-8.
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses ✨ 1634 Comus, A Mask, l.204-8.

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