What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to th…

John Milton
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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22. ✨ Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 22 (1667) See Housman 5; Milton 49
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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22. ✨ Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 22 (1667) See Housman 5; Milton 49

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