O fairest of all creation, last and bestOf all God's works, creature in whom excelledWhatever can to sight or thought be formed,Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost,Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote?
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About John Milton, Paradise Lost
John Milton, Paradise Lost.
Themes
- Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave