Father, I do acknowledge and confessThat I this honor, I this pomp have broughtTo Dagon, and advancd his praises highamong the Heathen round; to God have broughtDishonor, obloquy, and opd the mouthsOf Idolists, and Atheists[]The anguish of my Soul, that suffers notMine eye to harbor sleep, or thoughts to rest.This only hope relieves me, that the strifeWith mee hath end.
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John Milton was a 17th-century English poet and civil servant. John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. Read more on Wikipedia →