What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creature…

John Milton
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What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee? ✨ John Milton (1871). The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti, p.128
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What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee? ✨ John Milton (1871). The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti, p.128

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