John Milton föddes den 9 december1608 och dog den 8 november 1674 - Ranks second, only to Shakespeare, among English poets. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
Mortals, that would follow me, / Love virtue, she alone is free, / She can teach ye how to climb / Higher than the sphery chime; / Or if virtue feeble were, / Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
Most men admire virtue who follow not her lore
My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, / Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight.
My race of glory run, and race of shame, / And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
My sentence is for open war; of wiles, / More unexpert, I boast not.
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n
Nor war, or battle's sound / Was heard the world around.
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail / Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,/ Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair,/ And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
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