The Poetical Works of John Milton


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Co: Two such I saw, what time the labour'd Oxe  
In his loose traces from the furrow came,  
And the swink't hedger at his Supper sate;  
I saw them under a green mantling vine  
That crawls along the side of yon small hill,  
Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots,  
Their port was more then human, as they stood;  
I took it for a faery vision  
Of som gay creatures of the element  
That in the colours of the Rainbow live  
And play i'th plighted clouds. I was aw-strook,  
And as I past, I worshipt: if those you seek  
It were a journey like the path to Heav'n,  
To help you find them. La: Gentle villager  
What readiest way would bring me to that place?  
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Co: Due west it rises from this shrubby point.  
La: To find out that, good Shepherd, I suppose,  
In such a scant allowance of Star-light,  
Would overtask the best Land-Pilots art,  
Without the sure guess of well-practiz'd feet,  
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Co: I know each lane, and every alley green  
Dingle, or bushy dell of this wilde Wood,  
And every bosky bourn from side to side  
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