The Poetical Works of John Milton


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Yet shall he live in strife, and at his dore  
Devouring war shall never cease to roare;  
Yea it shall be his natural property  
To harbour those that are at enmity.  
What power, what force, what mighty spell, if not  
Your learned hands, can loose this Gordian knot?  
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The next Quantity and Quality, spake in Prose, then Relation  
was call'd by his Name.  
Rivers arise; whether thou be the Son,  
Of utmost Tweed, or Oose, or gulphie Dun,  
Or Trent, who like some earth-born Giant spreads  
His thirty Armes along the indented Meads,  
Or sullen Mole that runneth underneath,  
Or Severn swift, guilty of Maidens death,  
Or Rockie Avon, or of Sedgie Lee,  
Or Coaly Tine, or antient hallowed Dee,  
Or Humber loud that keeps the Scythians Name,  
Or Medway smooth, or Royal Towred Thame.  
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The rest was Prose.  
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