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  •    My celestial patroness, who deigns Her nightly visitation unimplored, And dictates to me slumbering, or inspires Easy my unpremeditated verse: Since first this subject for heroic song Pleased me long choosing, and beginning late.

    -John Milton
      Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.21^6.

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