My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight! ✨ 'Par…

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My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight! ✨ 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 18
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From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star. ✨ Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 742 (1667)
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones. ✨ John Milton (1854). The Poetical Works of John Milton. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.], p.574
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The never-ending flight Of future days. ✨ John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books, p.47

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