Milton

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    They also serve who only stand and wait.
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    His legions, angel forms, who lay intranst
    Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
    In Vallombrosa, where th’Etrurian shades
    High overarcht imbowr.
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    Others apart sat on a Hill retir’d,
    In thoughts more elevate, and reason’d high
    Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate,
    Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,
    And found no end, in wandring mazes lost.
    Of good and evil much they argu’d then,
    Of happiness and final misery,
    Passion and Apathie, and glory and shame,
    Vain wisdom all, and false Philosophie:
    —John Milton (1608–1674)