Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Eev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.
— John Milton Early Modern

Paradise Lost

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Paradise Lost, Book III

Date / Period

1667

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20/20-h/20-h.htm

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