# Quote — John Milton, Paradise Lost

> Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
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> Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
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> That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
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> In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
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> Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill
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> Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd
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> Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence
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> Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,
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> That with no middle flight intends to soar
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> Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues
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> Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.

- 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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> 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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