And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hair…

John Milton
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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain. ✨ c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.
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Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books. ✨ John Milton (1848). The poetical works of John Milton: With a memoir, and critical remarks on his genius and writings, p.18
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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain. ✨ c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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