Milton Town

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    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)

    A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)