# Quote — John Milton, Paradise Lost

> Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
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> Had in her sober livery all things clad;
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> Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,
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> They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,
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> Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
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> She all night long her amorous descant sung;
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> Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament
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> With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led
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> The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
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> Rising in clouded majesty, at length
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> Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light,
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> And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

- Author: [John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md)
- Book: [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/now-came-still

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> So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd
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> His nostril wide into the murky air,
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> Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

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> Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
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> In every gesture dignity and love.

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> To know
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> That which before us lies in daily life
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> Is the prime wisdom.

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