Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these pie…

John Milton
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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper. ✨ 1665 Mammon. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.274-7.
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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper. ✨ 1665 Mammon. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.274-7.

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