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...Though hard and rare. Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp — but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing...; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Ceasp I to wandnr where the Muses haunt, Clear spring, or...

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...the eternal " pure ethereal stream" of light, he touchingly exclaims — " But thou • Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing...; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, It follows that Milton, who composed " his poetry chiefly in winter, and nn his waking in a morning,"...