For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night?
For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night?
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 146.
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- Public domain (United States)
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