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NUMBER:39818
QUOTATION:How gladly would I meet,
Mortality, my sentence, and be earth
Insensible! how glad would lay me down,
As in my mother’s lap! There I should rest,
And sleep secure.
ATTRIBUTION:John Milton (1608–1674), British poet. Adam, in Paradise Lost, bk. 10.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Milton Collection.
 
 
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